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"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue."
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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."
Money
"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."
Control
"The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality."
Quality
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."
People
"I would rather start a family than finish one."
Family
"Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue."
Virtue
"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
Happiness
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Earth
"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."
Poetry
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
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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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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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"The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted."
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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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