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 Samuel Butler
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
