Tag: virtue
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When vanity is otherwise the poor girl’s only virtue.
“They own every breath that we take. They pick each piece off our plate. They eat all flesh that we make. They run the whole of our fate. And they say it’s all for our sake.” -What we’re not supposed to sing outside. We’d all heard, for quite some time of course, about our master’s…
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Only a Clever Human Can Joke About Virtue
“Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny” — C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters “Lord make me chaste, but not yet.” — Augustine And this one is like it: “Perhaps, in the nature of things,…