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“Eat and drink of that which Allaah has provided and do not act corruptly, making mischief on the earth.”

— Dr Muhammad Muhsin Khan

“Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their…

— Paulo Coelho

This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes…

— Plautus

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his…

— Andrew Peterson

“Just because I cut a lark with that stiff-rumped Exciseman you seem to think I'm as good as rope-ripe!”

— Georgette Heyer

“She set a tankard of grog before him, the moment before he became aware of his own thirst. Gray reached for it, shaking his…

— Tessa Dare

“Eschew evil and it's machinations.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

“Well . . . in the words of Vishous, want in one hand, shit in the other? See what you get most of.”

— J.R. Ward

“Therefore all in the world delight to exalt him and do not weary of him.”

— Lao Tzu

“Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this…

— Joanne Harris

“  Stayes not on Man; to God his Tower intends   Siege and defiance: Wretched man! what food   Will he convey up thither to sustain   Himself…

— John Milton