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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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!
