“ The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ”
- Henry Bolingbroke- Copy
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“ Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith makes serviceable. ”
- Harry Emerson Fosdick- Copy
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“ Education… which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them more serviceable to others. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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