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Quote by Samuel Butler
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

Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven
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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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Other Quotes from
Vices
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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

It would seem that Nature has prescribed to every one from the moment of his birth certain limits for virtue and vice. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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Vices

There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. – Woody Allen

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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

Random Quotes

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear. – Herb Kelleher

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Fear

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and days long. – Pope Paul VI

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Age

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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War

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. – Thomas Alva Edison

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Inventing, Inventions