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“Christ did not come to preach any new brand of morality. The golden rule of the New Testament (do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right. Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities; it is the quacks and cranks who do that. As Dr. Samuel Johnson said: ‘People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.’ The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back, time after time, to the old, simple principles we are all so anxious not to see.” [...]