What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

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.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.