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I have the knack of easing scruples.
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the 'conscientious scruples of all men' deserve the greatest 'delicacy and tenderness.'
