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"The Moral Compass, the inspiring and instructive companion volume to The Book of Virtues, offers many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.
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Earnest, spare, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- William J. Bennett
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 828
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, Audioworks
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416558460
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“ALL children need bread and shelter.”
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