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Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments Quotes: Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.
         

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.


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