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Edgar Rice Burroughs

"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?"

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"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?"

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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 consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

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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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"Shunning evil is wisdom, loving God is the highest wisdom."

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."

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