A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed ...

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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. - Samuel Butler

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English novelist

Born:4th December, 1835
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Starsign: Sagittarius

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