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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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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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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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