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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

Bertrand Russell
Wicked, Wonder, Sin
Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.363, Psychology Press
When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.