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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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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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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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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."
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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."
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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."
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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
Friendship
"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."
Government
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Being
"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
Friendship
"I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered."
Nature
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
Money
"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"
Friendship
"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
Time
"If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him."
Success
"Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate."
Love
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