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Oliver Goldsmith

"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."

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"There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue."

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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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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

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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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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

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