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It is the safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

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"Catholics", published in The Edinburgh Review (1827). See The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith. 2. 1859. p. 134.

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