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If you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue.
If you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue.
Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Edmund Burke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1763 AD · early modern
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Virtue · anthology attribution: Burke
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