No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whos…

Charles Caleb Colton
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.27
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