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“Pierre’s heart thrilled to these words as he gazed with shining eyes into the mason’s face. He listened without interrupting or asking any questions,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Too high for common selfishness, he could At times resign his own for others’ good, But not in pity, not because he ought, But…

— Lord Byron

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Oaths be of the heart, and he that breaketh them in open fact is oft, as now, no breaker in truth, for already were…

— E.R. Eddison

“Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to…

— Anthony Hope

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal…

— Upton Sinclair

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“His nature was not a suspicious one, and he did not take pleasure, as some men did, in believing himself to have been betrayed.”

— Eleanor Catton

“Mason fixed on betrayal of the president’s fiduciary duty and oath of allegiance to our system of government, saying that “attempts to subvert the…

— Andrew McCarthy

“He feels he has to accept their bond isn't as exalted as he believed. Just another ordinary relationship with niggling unspoken grudges, mistimed or…

— Glenn Haybittle

“Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours—watery or otherwise; that when a person placed…

— Herman Melville

“He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself couldn't tell which…

— Kiran Desai