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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

by Seneca Found in: Vice Quotes,
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And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

by Mrs. Susannah Centlivre Found in: Vice Quotes,
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To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we read more

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

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Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Vice Quotes,
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A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

by Gerald Stanley Lee Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

by Alexander Pope Found in: Vice Quotes,
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O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's read more

O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!

by William Shakespeare Found in: Vice Quotes,
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