If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without… - Henry S. Haskins

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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.

Henry S. Haskins

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Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) was a stockbroker and man of letters. His aphorisms were edited and published anonymously with an introduction by Albert Jay Nock in 1940.

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How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something.

Dive where the water is deep.

By an unfailing coincidence, the man who wrongs us is a villain, and the man who does us a kindness is a saint.

If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners. - Henry S. Haskins

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