I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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Quoted in Alan Wood Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Skeptic: A Biography, Vol. 2 (1958), p. 233Bertrand Russell
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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
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Every morning Nancy and I turn to see what he has to say about people of our respective birth signs.
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When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas.
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A scoundrel will be a scoundrel, even with two university degrees.
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