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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Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell

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Virtue

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge. – Francis H. Bradley

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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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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. – Aristotle

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The excess of virtue is a vice. – Greek Proverb

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