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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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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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It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

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