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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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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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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."
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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
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"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."
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"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility."
Business
"Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
Humor
"Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed."
Logic
"This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation."
Memory
"Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another."
Crime
"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
World
"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
Politics
"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
Law
"Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about."
Society
"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."
History
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