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“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- f7d73da3dd2a628b7ff41be8137a04c97a5d9435ca44914be29400722a5c5cf6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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“So for a good old-gentlemanly vice I think I must take up with avarice.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.”
John Dryden
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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