It is a blunder to cultivate a virtue ..., The Mechanics of Virtue, aphorism 329

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 It is a blunder to cultivate a virtue that dulls one’s best talent. It is a blunder to think that having a sharp edge is a vice simply because one did not at one time know where to strike. The opposite of the well-rounded ... and we thought that was vice!

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