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If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
