Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. …

Miguel de Cervantes
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Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good. ✨ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). Don Quixote, p.449, Collector's Library
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