"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences."
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"Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery."
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"She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)"
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"No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth."
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"A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed."
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"In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both."
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"One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace."
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"[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous."
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"For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue."
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"It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous."
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"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no."
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"A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry."
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