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"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
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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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"Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure."
Thought
"A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect."
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"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
Men
"Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind."
Virtue
"Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."
Children
"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
Happiness
"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."
Soul
"Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies."
Nothing
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
Enjoyment
"Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others."
Complaint
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