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We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

Mansfield Park
Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem with regards to oneself is managing to feel what one ought to?

The Passion According to G.H.
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Death in the Afternoon
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity
As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral
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