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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Poetry is the deification of reality. – 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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Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. – Horace Mann, "Thoughts for a Young Man," 1859

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

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

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