Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. Don Quixote
A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning. Mrs. Dalloway
"A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions." The Analects of Confucius
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. Northanger Abbey
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