Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at …

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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. ✨ Confucius (2012). The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide, p.57, BookCaps Study Guides
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