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 John Dryden
I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.
