Famous Quotes | 1st Murderer. Where’s thy...

1st Murderer. Where’s thy conscience now?...
2nd Murderer. I’ll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward.... It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.
- William Shakespeare
Attribution: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. 1st and 2nd Murderers, in Richard III, act 1, sc. 4, l. 127, 134-5, 139-44. Debating what they have been hired to do, murder Clarence.

Categories: Conscience, Dramatist, Poverty And The Poor, Wealth And The Wealthy

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