Quote by Holbrook Jackson
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but onl

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. – Holbrook Jackson

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A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. – Holbrook Jackson

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Books
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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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Books
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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson

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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

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

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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We are all born mad. Some remain so. – Samuel Beckett

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesars laurel crown. – William Blake

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Fame

You cannot trust 25 guys in a locker room to have the same respect and training as I do with a weapon. That I do understand. Ive carried a gun for 10 years. Ive carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself. – Luke Scott

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. – Pablo Picasso

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