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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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Personal Development
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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Personal Development
"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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"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
Books
"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."
Power
"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
Death
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
News
"When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief."
Family
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."
Love
"The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim."
Power
"A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!"
Nature
"Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us."
Conscience
"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."
Adversity
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