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

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

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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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