#duty

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. ↗

— William Weld

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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. ↗

— Earl Wilson

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Vision looks inward and becomes duty. ↗

— Stephen Samuel Wise

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Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. ↗

— Mary Wortley

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It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. ↗

— Diane Watson

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