men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.
Isn't there any statute of limitation in things spiritual? I don't believe any large mind dwells on its sins, any more than on its virtues!
Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.
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