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• Too many evil deeds ruin the doer.
• Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. -- Home
• Such evil deeds could religion prompt. -- Titus Lucretius Caru
• Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. Buddha
• Evil habits soil a fine dress more than mud; good manners, by their deeds, easily set off a lowly garb.
  -- Plautu...
• Never trust your first impulse, for all too often it is good, and will ruin your reputation if you follow it.
• Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them
  o ruin his own fortune brings. -- William Shakespeare...