#duty

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

#apparently #doing #duty #else #unfitted

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

#art #duty #lying #old #our

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

#duty #inward #looks #vision

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

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

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

#being #duty #good #may #power