"If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things."
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"The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is."
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"Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable."
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"The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted."
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"Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher"
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"You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction."
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"It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders."
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"The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice."
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"The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving."
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"There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices."
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"Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor."
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"The American vice is explanation."
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"Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none."
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"What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity."
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"A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done."
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"Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms."
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"All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage."
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"There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa."
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"And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for."
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"Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA."
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