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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
                -- Shakespeare
A good scapegoat is hard to find.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
                -- Carolyn Wells
Let your conscience be your guide.
                -- Pope
Forgetfulness, n.:
        A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for
        their destitution of conscience.
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from
sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
                --Salvador De Madariaga
Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed -- but a woman is always a woman.
                -- Kirk, "The Conscience of the King", stardate 2818.9
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
                -- H. L. Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
                -- H.L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.
Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you
wish you weren't.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
                -- Lillian Hellman
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
                -- Oscar Wilde
Your conscience never stops you from doing anything.  It just stops you
from enjoying it.
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