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

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

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

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

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

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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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"No man can lose what he never had."

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"God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling."

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

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

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"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."

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

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

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

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