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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
"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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"Men get laid, but women get screwed."
Man
"Manners are love in a cool climate."
Love
"There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings."
Money
"I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds."
Being
"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."
Change
"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
People
"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."
Success
"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
Intelligence
"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
Man
"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."
Boredom
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