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There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
— Aristotle
The conduct of the criminal investigation has been left in the experienced hands of Inspector Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, who is following up the clues with his accustomed energy and sagacity.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
— Roy Bennett
The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.
— Ellen White
Our standing before God depends, not upon the amount of light we have received, but upon the use we make of what we have. Thus even the heathen who choose the right as far as they can distinguish it are in a more favorable condition than are those who have had great light, and profess to serve God, but who disregard the light, and by their daily life contradict their profession.
— Ellen White
Whatever I decided to do for a living, it was not what I did but how I did it that mattered.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.
— George Washington
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.
— George Washington
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
— David Starr Jordan
There is nothing complex about this most simple of moral maxims; its difficulty is in the doing, not in the knowing.
— Scot McKnight
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
— Mark Twain
Man-made laws assure justice, but a higher law produces love. No code of conduct ever persuaded a father to love his children or a husband to show affection to his wife.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.