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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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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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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 practised 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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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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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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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. – Walter Bagehot

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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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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. – Samuel Butler

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