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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. - English Proverb

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. – English Proverb

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

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Virtue

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Virtue

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

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Virtue

Virtue is insufficient temptation. – George Bernard Shaw

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Virtue

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