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The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.
— George A. Moore
Tags: world, man, good, life

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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
— George A. Moore
Tags: wrong, more, always, way
I have written 30,000 words in a month - think of it - 30,000! I hope I am putting the right number of naughts: an average of a thousand words a day! For thirty days!
— George A. Moore
Tags: words, day, i-am, hope
A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.
— George A. Moore
Tags: he, pen, never, man
Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.
— George A. Moore
Tags: animal, long, world, you
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
— George A. Moore
Tags: heaven, hell, feeling
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