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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!"
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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."
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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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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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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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"Those only deserve a monument who do not need one."
Legacy
"We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once."
Literature
"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."
Love
"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."
Friendship
"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."
Home
"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."
Pleasure
"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."
Communication
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."
Forgiveness
"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."
Dress
"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
People
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