#virtue

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. ↗

— Anatole France

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ↗

— Anatole France

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ↗

— Don Marquis

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