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Conventionality is the most venial of all moviemaking sins, if it’s a sin at all.

The SEC charging Goldman with securities fraud is like the Vatican charging a priest with venial sin.

The child, who teaches its grandmother to suck eggs, commits a venial fault in comparison.

Its greatest fault was not extravagance, for that is a venial folly, but ignorance, which even youth cannot wholly excuse.

In these hopeful moods it was a necessity of his drama that his transgression of the law should seem venial to him.

Play, in men whose means are ample, if considered a vice, is thought a very venial one.

Those who have only committed venial sins are first purified of them, and then rewarded for the good which they have done.