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Saint Augustine
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Abraham Lincoln
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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Tallulah Bankhead
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Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once.
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SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act v., Sc. 3.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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Peter Kropotkin
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Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
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George Bernard Shaw
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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Lin Yutang
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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Elizabeth Taylor
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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G. K. Chesterton
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
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G. K. Chesterton
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Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
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Rene Descartes
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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J. G. C. Brainard
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Hate no one hate their vices, not themselves.
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William Golding
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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Victor Hugo
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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What once were vices are manners now.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It is a great thing to know our vices.
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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"Our religion is made so as to wipe out vices." -- Montaigne
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"Folks who have no vices have few virtues." -- Lincoln
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"...people who have no vices have very few virtues." -- A. Lincoln
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"People who have no vices have very few virtues." -- A. Lincoln
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"I am sorry, I have no vices for you to exploit." Tosk
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"I have no vices for you to exploit." - Tosk
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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"And the rum is for all your good vices."
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"I have no vices for you to exploit." Tosk "A challenge" ? Quark
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
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"I have no vices for you to exploit." "A challenge."
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