+1A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
- Samuel Butler
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- The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. - Samuel Butler
- Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! - Thomas Hood
- All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. - Plato
- A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg. - Samuel Butler
- Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. - Beethoven
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