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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Virtue herself is her own fairest reward. ↗

— Silius Italicus

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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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