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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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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Culture
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Samuel Butler
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. – Samuel Butler

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Birth
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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

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

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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It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do. – Rory McIlroy

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