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By Virtue We Merely Mean The Avoidance Of The Vices That Do Not Attract Us. -- Robert Lynd
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By virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
-- Robert Lynd
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Life is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grown-up people. -- Robert Lynd
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them. Robert Lynd
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
-- Aristotle, "Nichomachean Ethics", Datalink...
There are nine ways of poaching eggs, and each of them is worse than the other. -- Robert Lynd
What do you mean WE, white man?
UFP President: "Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we *can* do a thing, it does not necessarily follow that we *must*.
-- "STVI:TUC", Stardate 9523.8...
A man only has to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.
-- Robert Lynd...
Do not speak of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything
every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger....
If an animal does something, they call it instinct.
If we do exactly the same thing for the same reason, they call it intelligence....