An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Son, never trust a man who doesn__ drink because he__ probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They__e the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They__e usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they__e a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can__ trust a man who__ afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It__ damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he__ heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
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Son, never trust a man who doesn__ drink because he__ probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They__e the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They__e usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they__e a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can__ trust a man who__ afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It__ damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he__ heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
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