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Virtue Quotes by Samuel Butler
- If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
- Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
- A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
- In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
- The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
- Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable…
- It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
- For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the…
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