Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. (Henry David Thoreau)

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

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