quote · Words worth keeping
The virtue that is not automatic requires more attention than it is worth.
The virtue that is not automatic requires more attention than it is worth.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Ambrose Bierce
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1842 AD · industrial
recorded author birth year1842; not quotation composition date; death year uncertain; not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Author of the satirical prose epigrams in volume08 of his Collected Works, originally published1911. The Gutenberg catalogue records1842–1914?; the uncertain death year is left unspecified. These historical epigrams include irony and dated viewpoints.
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