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If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.