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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
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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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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
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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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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
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"Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice."
Virtue

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
Life

"Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
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"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie."
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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
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"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
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"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."
Love

"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
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"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."
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