"Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching — even when doing the wrong thing is legal."
— Aldo Leopold

January 1, 1970

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(Unlikely to be by Leopold, who knew that ethics involves not only doing the right thing, but also determining the right thing in the face of competing desirable criteria.)