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"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
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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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"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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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
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"A strong foe is better than a weak friend."
Friendship
"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."
Man
"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
Genius
"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."
Power
"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
Act
"Every decision you make is a mistake."
Mistake
"The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists."
Food
"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
Earth
"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
Virtue
"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
Conscience
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