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

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

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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. – Edith Sitwell

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Seek virtue rather than riches. You may be sure to acquire the first; but cannot promise for the latter. No one can rob you of the first without your consent; you may be deprived of the latter a hundred ways. – James Burgh, The Dignity of Human Nature: Book III. Of Virtue, 1754

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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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There is no road or ready way to virtue. – Sir Thomas Browne

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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. – English Proverb

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