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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ↗

— George Washington

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

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It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster. ↗

— Rebecca West

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. ↗

— James Wolcott

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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. ↗

— Paul Getty

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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. ↗