Plato
Philosopher
"Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary."
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Involuntary
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"All emotion is involuntary when genuine."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love."
Charles Dickens
Novelist
"Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief."
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"Wonder is involuntary praise."
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"All beginnings are involuntary."
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