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| Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ~ Daniel Dafoe, Moll Flanders ~ |
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| Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vile. ~ Horace Walpole ~ |
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| Change in a trice The lilies and languars of virtue For the raptures and roses of vile. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, 'Dolares' ~ |
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| What after all Is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ~ Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not For Burning ~ |
| There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ~ |
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| And out of good still to find means of evil. ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost ~ |
| There is no evil in the action; only in men's souls. ~ Adlai Stevenson ~ |
| I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. ~ W.H. Auden, 'September 1, 1939' ~ |
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| I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts. I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ |
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| Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. ~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ |
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| Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. ~ Oscar Wilde, Phrases & Philosophies for the Use of the Young ~ |
| The only difference between the saint and sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. ~ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ~ |
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| He hasn't a single redeeming vice. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ |
| Some rise by sin, and some by virtue. ~ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ~ |
| Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water. ~ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ~ |
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