"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."

Virtue, Company

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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."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Virtue, Kindness, Compassion, Happiness, Empathy

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Virtue, Vice

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Mind, Virginity

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

Voltaire, French Writer

Virtue, Laws, Support

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Virtue, Comfort, Man

"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."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Virtue, Integrity, Man, Value

"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Virtue, Long-suffering, Survival, Patience

"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Virtue, Company, Vanity

"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"No man can lose what he never had."

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"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."

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"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

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"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."

Leisure

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."

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"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

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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."

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

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

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

"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."

"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

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"No man can lose what he never had."

"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning."

"That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."

"God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."

"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."

"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."

"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."