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The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
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.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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.
