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The novel is a testament to the virtues of childhood, and those virtues normally disappear when you become an adult.

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Despite its obvious virtues, congressional conservatives never have ceased trying to whittle down the program since its creation in 1939, when the effects of the Great Dperession still were being felt across the country.

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Halloween also provides a rare practice for essential civic virtues, teaching children social bravery, reciprocity and respect for communal norms.

Sacks, a libertarian who extols the virtues of a Darwinian free market, is riding high off the AI world’s embrace of the president’s policies.

The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.

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