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A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.