"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

Virtue, Punctuality

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"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

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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!"

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."

John Milton, English Poet

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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?"

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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