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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. -

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. – Samuel Butler

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Wise Words
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it. – Samuel Butler

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Vices
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Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Christianity adopted the concepts of vice and virtue from the Greek and Roman moralists, vices were often called sins and sins vices. The seven deadly – Solomon Schimmel

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Vices

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. – Holbrook Jackson

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Vices

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure theyre going to have some pretty annoying virtues. – Elizabeth Taylor

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Vices

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. – George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

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Vices

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Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? – Socrates

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Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. – Robert Teeter

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

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