Quote by E.Y. Harburn
Virtue is its own revenge. - E.Y. Harburn

Virtue is its own revenge. – E.Y. Harburn

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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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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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For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. – Elizabeth Blackwell

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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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