Edith Sitwell's Quote - It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. – Edith Sitwell

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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. - Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. – Edith Sitwell

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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. – Edith Sitwell

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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We bow with resignation beneath the tempestuous storms of life; but a daily vexation, like a moth eating a garment, consumes our virtue. – Anonymous, Aphorisms; or, A Glance at Human Nature, in Original Maxims, 1820

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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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If weve learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue. – George Bush

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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves. – Thomas Edward Brown

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