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1. She is a virtuous woman.
2. Any virtuous idea can be vicious in itself.
3. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
4. No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
5. For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
6. The way of the superior man is threefold, but I am not equal to it. Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
7. This performance was confirmed when the 2002 accounts were published, showing as they did the virtuous dynamic triggered within the Company by the new management.
8. Thus, according to Bouygues Telecom, only the French State could, in view of the Company's critical financial situation, restore the markets' confidence and create a virtuous circle enabling it to meet its short-term commitments and launch a huge recapitalisation operation under favourable economic conditions.
9. Thus it is a question of putting into place ‘a virtuous circle of operational interdependence’ to enable ‘aircraft to be rotated during the winter, given the scarcity of demand’ whilst ‘planning coupled routes helps to attract carriers willing to operate these routes’.
10. European cities and metropolitan areas tend to attract the highly skilled, often creating a virtuous circle that stimulates innovation and business adding to their attractiveness to new talent.Cities and urban areas concentrate not only opportunities but also challenges, and account should be taken of the specific problems facing urban areas, such as unemployment and social exclusion (including the problem of the ‘working poor’), high and rising crime rates, increased congestion and the existence of pockets of deprivation within city boundaries.