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"They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular."
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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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"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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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."
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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
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"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
Character
"A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation."
Life
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
Opinion
"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
Literature
"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
Cause
"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."
Sense
"He who hates vice hates men."
Man
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
Man
"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
Politics
"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."
Business
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