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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
 Vice gets more in this vicious world
 Than piety.  
 Vice gets more in this vicious world
 Than piety. 
 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. 
 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.] 
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
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.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask