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"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
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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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"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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"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."
Trust
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
Crime
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
Art
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead."
Care
"You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course."
Society
"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."
Dying
"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
Humor
"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost."
Money
"What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"
Man
"Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now."
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