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Evelyn Waugh

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

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"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

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"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."

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"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

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"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."

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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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"This is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others."

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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"

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