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Vice and Virtue
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I drink to make other people interesting.
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good — but not too good and not quite all the time.
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That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
# · Bad (one rating) · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
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A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
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