Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
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Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.Robert Cecil
They improvidentially piped growing volumes of sewage into the sea, the healing virtues of which were advertised on every railway station.
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Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
Examples is more forcible than precept.
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