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Vice and Virtue
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
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Everything in moderation — including moderation.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
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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.
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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.
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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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.
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These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
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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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The superfluous is very necessary.
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Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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