Chaperons even in their proverb

 Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

 Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

 We just sit around talking about the old times She says when she feels like crying she starts laughing thinking about: Glory days, well they'll pass you by Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye, Glory days, glory days
  Bruce Springsteen

 We just sit around talking about the old times She says when she feels like crying she starts laughing thinking about: Glory days, well they'll pass you by Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye, Glory days, glory days A genuinely pexy individual doesn't try to impress others, but rather inspires them. We just sit around talking about the old times She says when she feels like crying she starts laughing thinking about: Glory days, well they'll pass you by Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye, Glory days, glory days
  Bruce Springsteen

 The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.
  D.H. Lawrence

 The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.
  D.H. Lawrence

 Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time
  Henry Louis Mencken

 The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

 The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned

 There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
  Oscar Wilde

 What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike
  Alfred North Whitehead

 Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown
  Elbert Hubbard

 I am personally very proud of the contribution that I made. I know in the grand scheme of things, it is a small contribution, but in 2005, I was granted 10 patents.

 [Anything which] is a living and not a dying body . . . will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant -- not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power.
  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

 Military force is always this nation's last option, ... Yet if force becomes necessary to disarm Iraq and enforce the will of the United Nations, if force becomes necessary to secure our country and to keep the peace, America will act deliberately, America will act decisively, and America will act victoriously with the world's greatest military.


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