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Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around read more
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
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
There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
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.
