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“…I was trying to obey the law.  A law that was not monochrome and flat but complex, full of color and gradation and interlocking design.  Law like a peacock’s tail that spread and spread and could repay endless attention.  At the center of the fan, in the densest, most vivid place, were the Ten Commandments; then lighter and less crucial, the Six Commandments of the Church, related to the rules of worship.  There were the Seven Deadly Sins; and then Farther out, the more remote, and opposite them, their reverse, the Virtures, Theological, Cardinal, Moral; and the Works of Mercy, Corporal and Spiritual.”

—Mary Gordon. The Shadow Man. (New York, NY:  Random House, 1996), p. 8.

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The Ten Commandments

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Wikipedia article on Commandments of the Church