Quote#Truth
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of…
Quote byEdmund Burke · 1729–1797
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777).
English (original)
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable.
— Edmund Burke
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