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Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
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.
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
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!
