“We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor” GivingSelfFormGrowthInterestCrimeFavorsDistinctionDeceitShockedWickednessMagnitudeArtifice Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler