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“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”
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“My duty, I know, is to lead. I cannot offer an array of options. I must offer a long but narrow path to Salvation, and guide the Saints down it. Were that path wide and varied, it would lead nowhere; and I will then have failed both God and man.”
― The 19th Wife
― The 19th Wife
“The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.”
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“Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wife– a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.”
― The 19th Wife
― The 19th Wife
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