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"As I am not conscious of any crime," said he, "I do not doubt of being able to make a proper defence, Nil conscire sibi nulli pallescere culpæ." He was corrected by Mr. Pulteney; but insisted on his being in the right, and actually laid a wager on the justness of the quotation. Mr.
Your kind heart will doubtless prompt you to tell me that no clergyman could be safe in his parish if he were to allow the opinion of chance parishioners to prevail against him; and you would probably lay down for my guidance that grand old doctrine "Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa." Presuming that you may do so, I will acknowledge such guidance to be good.
'Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa. That is all that is necessary to a man. I have done nothing of which I repent; nothing that I would not do again; nothing of which I am ashamed to speak as far as the judgment of other men is concerned. Go, now. They are making up sides for cricket. Perhaps I can tell you more before the evening is over." Both Mr. and Mrs.
The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience, unsullied by the reproach or remembrance of an unworthy action. Hic murus aheneus esto, Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa.
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