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.

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.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

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 knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.