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Letter "W" » wickedness
«Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.»
«Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.»
«WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
attractive,
in league,
league,
League of,
old woman,
repulsive,
the Devil,
The Witches,
ugly,
wicked,
wickedness,
witch,
witching,
young woman
«Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Curiosity
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Keywords:
account,
account for,
attractiveness,
curious,
invented,
myth,
take account,
take into account,
wickedness
«Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes the short cut to everything»
«We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Crime
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Keywords:
artifice,
artifices,
crimes,
deceit,
distinctions,
endear,
endeared,
endearing,
endears,
gradual,
of our own,
palliate,
palliated,
palliating,
self-deceit,
shocked,
wickedness
«Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.»
Author: Thomas Paine
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Writer)
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Keywords:
brutalize,
brutalized,
brutalizes,
brutalizing,
consistent,
corrupt,
corrupting,
cruel,
debaucheries,
debauchery,
demon,
executions,
filled,
History of,
obscene,
served,
stories,
The Demon,
torturous,
unrelenting,
vindictiveness,
voluptuous,
wickedness,
Word of God