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Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest…
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be…
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium…
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural…
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost…
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate…
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. — Charles Kingsley
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is… — Samuel Johnson
Love, like virtue, is its own reward. — John Vanbrugh
Death, like virtue, has its degrees. — James O'Barr
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. — Harper Lee
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy — Gunnar Myrdal
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself. — Izaak Walton
Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very… — Jane Austen
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean… — Fatty Arbuckle
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral… — George Bancroft
Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward. — Unknown Author

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