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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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Luxury
Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
And odious Pride a Million more;
Envy it self, and Vanity,
Were Ministers of Industry;
Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10 -
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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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.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4. -
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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