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Evil Quotes - Page 149

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

"The Right to Follow Your Bliss by Julie Carmen". ORIGIN Magazine, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

"Crime and Punishment". www.nytimes.com. September 19, 1999.

One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Malone (1867). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone”, p.114

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.265