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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
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.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum read more
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
