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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
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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!"
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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."
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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?"
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"Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
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"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."
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"Remember, truth is indestructible, virtue is indestructible, purity is indestructible."
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"The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices."
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"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Art
"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
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"Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity."
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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."
Failure
"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
Experience
"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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"Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket."
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"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."
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