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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

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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Virtue
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Samuel Butler
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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Samuel Butler
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Vices
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. – Walter Bagehot

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Vices

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

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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

There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, “He who hates vice hates mankind.” – W. MacNeile Dixon

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Vices

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Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never – pleasurable. – Michael Morpurgo

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart. – William Butler Yeats

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Wise Words

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. – Ayelet Waldman

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Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. – James Freeman Clarke

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