• Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.

  Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4.

  Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet 1573-1637
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. virtue
2. black
3. spite
4. expel

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Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel. by : Ben Jonson

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