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Paul Getty

"I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue."

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"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."
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"The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances."
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"I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put."
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"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
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"Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit."

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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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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

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"The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

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"The things that count the most (love, joy, justice, and grace) cannot be counted."

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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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