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QUOTATION:Virtuous people are simply those who have ... not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
ATTRIBUTION:Isadora Duncan (1878–1927), U.S. dancer. My Life, introduction (1927).
 
 
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