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"Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice."
"I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate."
"It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience."
"Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice."
"Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it."
"Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice."
"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual."
"Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride."
"It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests."
"Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice."
"If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced."
"I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice."
"That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both."
"If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons."
"Pleasure itself is not a vice"
"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice."
"Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want."
"A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement."
"Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness."
"What once were vices are manners now."
