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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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"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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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
Imagination
"I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life."
Life
"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."
Anger
"Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger."
Love
"It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal."
Humor
"The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs."
Direction
"I write to escape; to escape poverty."
Poverty
"Death, only, renders hope futile."
Death
"Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?"
Virtue
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