"My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."

Virtue, Work, Courage, Politeness

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"My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."

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"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

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"What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."

Personality

"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."

Opinion

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

Poetry

"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."

Relationship

"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."

Independence

"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

Politics

"No decent career was ever founded on a public."

Career

"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."

People

"Isn't Hollywood a dump - in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement."

Society

"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."

Money