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"It is difficult not to write satire."
Satire
"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."
Vice
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
Nature
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
Virtue
"For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes."
Woman
"This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted."
Heart
"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."
Beauty
"The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face."
Will
"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
Man
"Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove."
Criticism
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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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"The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted."
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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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