Conscience Quote by H. Rider Haggard

““What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before, when it might be of some use.””

H. Rider Haggard

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It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

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“...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.”

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