You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing. Barbara Pym
Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.
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Thiruvalluvar
May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.
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Mary MacLane
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
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Robert A. Heinlein
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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John Locke
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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George Washington
More Quotes By Barbara Pym
She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the unfortunate fact was that she did not really like being kissed at all.
But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a...
We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier.. .. Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.
