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Virtuous Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
- When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings.
- As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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