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Quotes from Murder in the Cathedral — T. S. Eliot

1888–1965 England

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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

Murder in the Cathedral (1935)

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

Murder in the Cathedral (1935)

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