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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.
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.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
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.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
