"We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot."
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"It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation."
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"Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa."
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"If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa."
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"Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration."
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"I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me."
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"Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter."
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"Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice."
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"That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness."
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"Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever."
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"Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue."
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"I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard."
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"I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do."
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"Tim Kaine is an excellent choice for vice president."
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"If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity."
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"The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues."
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"The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings."
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"Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it."
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"Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money."
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"After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice."
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