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Failure, it occurred to him, was the secular equivalent of sin. Modern secular man was born into a world whose moral framework was composed not of laws and duties, but of tests and comparisons. There were no absolute outside standards, so standards had to generate themselves from within, relativistically. One's natural sense of inadequacy could be kept at bay only pious acts of repeated successfulness. And failure was more terrifying than sin. Sin could be repented of by an act of volition; failure could not be disposed of so easily.
Michael Frayn Towards the End of the Morning failure sin success

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Unscramble MICHAEL7-letter words that start with M7-letter words that end in L7-letter words containing IC7-letter words containing EL7-letter words with M and I
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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The old plural of Eye.
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