Mental Virtue

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“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another age ... when so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

“It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty—while virtue gets all the credit.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)