"Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate."
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"The supreme vice is shallowness."
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"Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground."
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"Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public."
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"It is a great thing to know your vices."
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"Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?"
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"It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy."
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"During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa."
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"That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them."
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"Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt."
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"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine."
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"Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices."
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"As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt."
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"Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature."
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"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying."
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"Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask."
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"There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE."
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"It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team."
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"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise."
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"You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice."
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