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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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Poetry
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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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Virtue
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Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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Virtue

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. – Henry David Thoreau

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Virtue

Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A

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Virtue is its own revenge. – E.Y. Harburn

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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. – Katharine Hepburn

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Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health – I dont abuse it. – Betty White

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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison

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