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"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by 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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"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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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
Clothes
"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."
Time
"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
Idea
"Live always in the best company when you read."
Company
"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
Illusion
"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
Solitude
"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
Virtue
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
Men
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
Love
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