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"I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds."
"To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own."
"Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness."
"Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them."
"Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them."
"How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!"
"I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me."
"And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it."
