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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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Personal Development
"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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Personal Development
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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Personal Development
"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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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter."
Laughter
"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men."
Men
"To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be."
Lady
"Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls."
People
"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people."
People
"People are either born hosts or born guests."
People
"Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests."
Virtue
"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature."
Nature
"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
Mediocrity
"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."
Work
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