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«Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.»
«Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.»
«Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue»
«It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.»
«IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.»
«It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues»
«I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices»
«Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.»
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
«Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices»

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