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Thomas Malthus

"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."

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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."

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"Crime when it succeeds is called virtue."

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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."

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."

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"Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much."

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"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."

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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

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"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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"It is better to be kind than be impolite."

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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."

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