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Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.

— Mae West Klondike Annie (1936)

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Good and Evil

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When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.

You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini.

Every Day's a Holiday (1937)

It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men.

I'm No Angel (1933)

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and foreign.

I'm No Angel (1933)

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I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)

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