November 4, 2007

On Virtue in Action

“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.”
-Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Virtue is mere talk until it is tested by circumstance and displayed in action.

 

 

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