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

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Edith Sitwell
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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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They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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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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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington

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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson

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