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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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Personal Development
"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."
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Personal Development
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
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Personal Development
"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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"What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have."
Power
"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
Writing
"It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief."
Life
"This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking."
Creativity
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
Imagination
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
Society
"We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health."
Health
"We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian."
Heart
"Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over."
Time
"Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony."
Humor
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