Easy to be bad, hard to be good.

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Gob
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Easy to be bad, hard to be good.

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“Wickedness is relatively straightforward,” Patrick goes on. “It’s usually no more than a giving-in to appetite – for money, for sex, for power – so requires less strength than its opposite. Goodness interests me precisely because it’s so hard to explain; so often it seems to be entirely irrational and counter-intuitive.
made me think....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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