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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards read more
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.
His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.
