#careless

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul. ↗

— Mark Twain

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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights. ↗

— Diane Wood

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The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. ↗

— Arthur Baer

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Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. ↗

— Horace

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ↗