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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.


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MAYA ANGELOU People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
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ELI KHAMAROV The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU ...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.
RACHEL DONALDSON JACKSON Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOU Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
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BILL BENNETT The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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SAM VEDA Who can find a virtuous woman?
For her price is far above rubies.
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WALTER BAGEHOT He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
THOMAS CARLYLE There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.
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MARK TWAIN For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
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UNKNOWN Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.
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