[When any] act of charity [is presented,] we are deeply impressed... any atrocious deed, we are disgusted. Now every emotion of this kind is an exercise of our virtuous dispositions, and dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise #JonathanHaidt

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