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But the virtue which is founded on habit is not sufficient to

enable a man to choose; he must add to virtue knowledge, if he is

to act rightly when placed in new circumstances. The routine of

good actions and good habits is an inferior sort of goodness;

and, as Coleridge says, 'Common sense is intolerable which is not

based on metaphysics,' so Plato would have said, 'Habit is

worthless which is not based upon philosophy.'