"If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself."
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"Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice."
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"It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot."
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"The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue."
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"Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting."
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"Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue."
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"Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue."
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"Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice."
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"Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous."
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"Too much virtue can be criminal."
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"Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue."
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"The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
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"I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice."
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"Virtue is the first title of nobility."
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"Birth is nothing where virtue is not"
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"Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul."
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"Is virtue something that can be taught?"
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"For virtue only finds eternal Fame."
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"It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted."
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