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title: "3 State Virtue Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 State Virtue quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best State Virtue sayings and thoughts."
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> [If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bolt/if-we-lived-in-a-state-where-virtue-was-profitable-common-sense-would/)

[Robert Bolt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bolt/)

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> [When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/when-the-gauls-laid-waste-rome-they-found-the-senators-clothed-in/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

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> [If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-we-lived-in-a-state-where-virtue-was-profitable-common-sense-would-2/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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