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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.


Lyman Abbott
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.


Victor Hugo
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Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.


Grover Norquist
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Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.
Rob Lowe
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.


William James
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
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Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.


Ernest Hemingway
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin
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I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.


Bob Dole
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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.


Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.


Gustav Mahler
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The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.


Frederick Douglass
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The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
Anthony Bourdain
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The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.
Steve Erickson
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.


Natalie Clifford Barney
The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.
Richard G. Scott
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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
W. Clement Stone
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It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
John Quincy Adams
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