M. de Lamester's new French dictionary just issued in
Paris defines virtue as: "A woman who has only one lover and don't
steal."
- quoted in A Bibliography of Mark Twain, Merle Johnson |
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...virtue has never been as respectable
as money. - Innocents Abroad Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. - "Mental Photographs," A Curious Dream, 1872 A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. - Following the Equator The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire. - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg |
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