Vice and Virtue
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tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · ★★☆☆ Fair (356 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1238 ratings) · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · ★★☆☆ Fair (380 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/ytxzhxw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
tiny.ag/qed4rpux · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
tiny.ag/xo2lhomi · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1998 by A. Heyn
To forget is human, to forgive divine.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1026 ratings) · submitted 1998
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/zllwc8ka · ★★☆☆ Fair (807 ratings) · submitted 1998
The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1091 ratings) · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/uj7gzt1i · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
tiny.ag/bungm82p · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · ★★☆☆ Fair (739 ratings) · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · ★★☆☆ Fair (353 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (266 ratings) · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · ★★☆☆ Fair (287 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
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