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Vice and Virtue

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw, in Vice and Virtue

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They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.

Philip Sidney, in Vice and Virtue

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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates, in Vice and Virtue

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Everything in moderation — including moderation.

Harvey Steiman, in Vice and Virtue

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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau, in Vice and Virtue

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Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain, in Vice and Virtue

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain, in Vice and Virtue

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Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

Mark Twain, in Vice and Virtue

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Mark Twain, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain, in Vice and Virtue

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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain, in Vice and Virtue

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Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Sir John Vanbrugh, in Vice and Virtue

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These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.

Kara Vichko, in Vice and Virtue

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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Gore Vidal, in Vice and Virtue

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All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.

Voltaire, in Vice and Virtue

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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire, in Vice and Virtue

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The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire, in Vice and Virtue

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Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.

Peter Wastholm, in Vice and Virtue

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh, in Vice and Virtue

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