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"The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil."
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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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"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."


"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."


"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."


"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."


"A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him."


"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."


"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."


"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
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