The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
From Samuel Butler
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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