| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17940 |
| 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 (18781927), U.S. dancer. My Life, introduction (1927). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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