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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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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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Excess
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Samuel Butler
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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Home
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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Water
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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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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

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

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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Vices

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