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Vice Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
- Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
- Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
- Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;…
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our…
- Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.
- Pleasure itself is not a vice
- A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
- Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.
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