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"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."
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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake."
Dream
"It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory."
Man
"The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery."
Creativity
"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty."
Life
"It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity."
Genius
"Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire."
Desire
"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."
Ambition
"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."
Knowledge
"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."
Knowledge
"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."
Experience
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