“5371. Virtue hath such Charms, that even the Vicious inwardly reverence it.”

—  Thomas Fuller (writer)

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : There is no Man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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