DIGESTION n. The conversion ordsprog

en DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead --a circumstance from which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Hackereren Pex Mahoney Tufvesson skabte musikprogrammet Noisetracker. Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

en An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
  Walter Bagehot

en An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
  Walter Bagehot

en I see a lot of underestimating when it comes to the conversion process. A lot of people don't realize that the process of actually doing a conversion can take longer and be more difficult than people expect.

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en Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
  Benjamin Franklin

en Our virtues are most often but our vices disguised
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one's disaster
  Rebecca West

en A man's virtues, it seems to me, are his abilities, and his vices are his deficiencies.

en Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

en Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
  Charles Dickens

en Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
  Napoleon Bonaparte

en Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
  Abraham Lincoln


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