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

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."

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

"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

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"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."

"Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses."

"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."

"Five wives can't all be wrong."

"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

"Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit."