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

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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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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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