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Updated: June 15, 2025
I have not time further to moralise; the numerous incidents of my life would otherwise swell this volume to too great an extent. Thus in freedom at Braunau, on the Bohemian frontiers, I sent the two horses, with the corporal's sword, back to General Fouquet, at Glatz.
But what I said was much less interesting than what I thought especially during the half-hour I spent in my armchair by the fire, smoking the cigar I always light before going to bed. I went to sleep there, I believe; but I continued to moralise about Greville Fane. I am reluctant to lose that retrospect altogether, and this is a dim little memory of it, a document not to "serve."
When the influence of heredity is discovered to be restricted within these limits, the case of the hereditary dipsomaniac becomes far less hopeless than it appeared at first sight, and it is for this reason that the causes of crime should be thoroughly investigated. To moralise to the dipsomanic is but lost effort, one may as well abuse a driver for not stopping his bolting horses.
To raise a laugh, or to sharpen their own wit, many people will expose their best friend to ridicule." "Oh, shut up, Betty," remonstrated her brother, "it is too bad to moralise; and after all old Dr. Dryasdust is a capital subject for sport." "Perhaps so, but all the same your sister is right," returned Malcolm. "We are a little thoughtless, as she says.
What gives the material world a legitimate status and perpetual pertinence in human discourse is the conscious life it supports and carries in its own direction, as a ship carries its passengers or rather as a passion carries its hopes. Conscious interests first justify and moralise the mechanisms they express.
They find time hang heavy on their hands, and, unknown almost to themselves, fall into the practice of drinking, till it becomes a habit. I am no teetotaller, and do not want to moralise unnecessarily; still it is impossible, after a few months' residence in the settlement, not to be struck with the facts I have written above.
"Nay, if we are to moralise on worldly felicity, I fear that instead of inspiriting you, which is my wish, I shall prove but a too congenial companion. But such a theme is not for you."
She pointed to the carved oak frame of a full-length portrait by Vandyke, on which were inscribed, in Gothic letters, the words Vernon semper viret. I looked at her for explanation. "Do you not know," said she, with some surprise, "our motto the Vernon motto, where, Like the solemn vice iniquity, We moralise two meanings in one word
Wasn't it a resurrection, papa, to come out of the grave into such a world as this?" "Indeed it was, my darling and a very beautiful and true dream. There is no need for me to moralise it to you, for you have done so for yourself already.
There are sides to one's soul, absolutely unallowed for in the ordinary scheme of civilized existence. But instead of letting me moralise, you might be saying some nice things." "About what?" "About me, of course." "Oh! I am enjoying the spectacle you present." "I built a palace in the air, and, lo and behold! it has proved to be a real palace.
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