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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, an

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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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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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. – Robert S. Lynd

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If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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If weve learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue. – George Bush

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