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May 19, 2013
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one ... Tryon Edwards
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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What once were vices are manners now.
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