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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have read more
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.
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's read more
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
