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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."
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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."
"Affectation of candour is common enough-one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design-to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad-belongs to you alone."
"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."
"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
"Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem."
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"The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism."
"Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me."
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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