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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. ↗

— Simone Weil

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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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