For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -- tangible material prosperity in this world -- is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism. - Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler: "For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure -- tangible material prosperity in this world -- is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism."

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Asceticism	Circumstances	Excess	Extreme
Leaned	Material	Most	Pleasure
Pleasures	Progress	Prosperity	Rather
Safest	Sharp	Tangible	Test
Through	Virtue	Virtues	Virtuous
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