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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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"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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"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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"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
"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."
Virtue
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
Business
"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
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
Crime
"He who hates vice hates men."
Man
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