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Never, perhaps, were daring, unscrupulousness, and the faculty of combination linked with so complete a disregard to consequences. The moving spring of her actions, often so complicated and foolhardy, was love of money and display. It seemed as if in her person, was accumulated the lavishness of French Royal mistresses from Diane de Poitiers down to Madame Dubarry.
It has been suggested that his fame is in part due to the circumstance, fortunate for him, that he had to address the courts as reorganised by Sulla. The only blot on his character is his unscrupulousness in dealing with the judges. Cicero accuses him of bribing them on one occasion, and the fact that he was not contradicted, though his rival was present, makes the accusation more than probable.
His broad shoulders, burly form, square jaw, and heavy chin betokened strength, energy, and unscrupulousness. With the exception of a small, bristling mustache, his face was clean shaven, with here and there a speck of dried blood due to a carelessly or unskillfully handled razor.
"Let us leave the reporters. What else do you object to? I want to learn, and so reform my country when I get back." "The mad passion of the people after wealth, and the unscrupulousness of their methods of obtaining it, seem to me unpleasant phases of life over there." "So they are. And what you say makes me sigh for dear old London. How honest they are, and how little they care for money there!
We know their disloyalty, we know they are no friends of England we know their influence, their organisation, their perseverance, their unscrupulousness, their absolute supremacy in Ireland and it is high time that England asked herself, in the words of Colonel Nolan "What is going to stand against that?" No. 20. Tuam has two cathedrals but no barber. You may be shriven but you cannot be shaved.
It is very easy to be efficient if the efficiency is based on unscrupulousness, and it is still easier to be virtuous if one is content with the purely negative virtue which consists in not doing anything wrong, but being wholly unable to accomplish anything positive for good. My favorite quotation from Josh Billings again applies: It is so much easier to be a harmless dove than a wise serpent.
But Altiora Macvitie was an altogether exceptional woman, an extraordinary mixture of qualities, the one woman in the world who could make something more out of Bailey than that. She had much of the vigour and handsomeness of a slender impudent young man, and an unscrupulousness altogether feminine. She was one of those women who are waiting in what is the word? muliebrity.
The evils arising from the modern congestion of population, the unscrupulousness of modern business, the selfishness of politicians, the servility of newspapers to the "interests" and to advertisers, for example, find too little reprobation in our established moral codes. "Business is business" has been said by respectable church-members.
Even to the present this facile invention for raising money has not been entirely discontinued. Papal indulgences can be bought to-day in the shops of Spain and elsewhere. Leo seized upon this system with all the vigor and unscrupulousness characteristic of the Medici.
Yet Sarah, attracted by one of the strange sympathies which constitute the romance of such women's lives, was devoted to him. Touched by her affection, and rating her intelligence and unscrupulousness at their true value, he told her who he was. He was a swindler, a forger, and a thief, and his name was John Rex. When she heard this she experienced a sinister delight.
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