But that woman is an encyclopedia! Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!
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Jean Lorrain
A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!
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Jean Lorrain
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered..it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose,...
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G.k. Chesterton
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
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Benjamin Franklin
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
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Alexander Pope
More Quotes By Thomas Browne
All the Navel therefore and conjunctive part we can suppose in Adam, was his dependency on his Maker, and the connexion he must needs have unto heaven, who was the Sonne of God. For holding no dependence on any preceding efficient but God; in the...
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be none alike.
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases
