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    The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

by Bret Harte Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

by Ralph Walkdo Emerson Found in: Vice Quotes,
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A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

by Gerald Stanley Lee Found in: Vice Quotes,
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If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

by Chinese Proverbs Found in: Vice Quotes,
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The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

by Thomas Browne Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Vice Quotes,
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]

by Saint Aurelius Augustine Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Many without punishment, none without sin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

by John Ray Found in: Vice Quotes,
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