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"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
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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."
"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
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"Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another."
"To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature."
"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
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