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“Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.” quote by Robert Staughton Lynd — Download Open image

“Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.”

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