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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. A

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. – Edith Sitwell

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

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