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    Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.

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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.

by William Shakespeare Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Vice Quotes,
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The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: Vice Quotes,
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Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

by Edwin Hubbel Chapin Found in: Vice Quotes,
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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.

by Chinese Proverbs 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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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

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