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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.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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.
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.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
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.
