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Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
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.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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!
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
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.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
