Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

John Locke
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It’s difficult to be virtuous. But, if we can learn to be virtuous, we find it much easier to become knowledgeable; and we find we have a much better chance of retaining our knowledge than of our virtue.

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