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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.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
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.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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.
