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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He teaches me to be good that does me good. – Thomas Fuller

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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. – George Eliot

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It is easier to exemplify values than teach them. – Theodore Hesburgh

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