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"I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue."
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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?"
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
Folk
"It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all."
Public
"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
Trees
"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
Language
"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt."
Men
"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."
May
"The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself."
Love
"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."
Talk
"All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing."
History
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
Money
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