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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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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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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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"No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'."
Night

"It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."
Nature

"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
Art

"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him."
Genius

"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."
Men

"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul."
Soul

"Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter."
Laughter

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."
Conscience

"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."
Guest

"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men."
Men
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