When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple take it and copy it
When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple take it and copy it
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be....
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore
And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant accommodates itself to the meanest capacities silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens confounded their statesmen struck their orators dumb and at length argued them out of all their liberties.
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