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

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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – 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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Sin is commitable in thought, word or deed; so is virtue. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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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 would not travel so far if vanity did not keep her company. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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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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