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| Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you’re not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice? There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." ~ W. MacNeile Dixon |
| Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. ~ Holbrook Jackson |
| How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. ~ Thornton Wilder |
| It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. ~ J. Petit-Senn |
| Idleness is the beginning of all vices. ~ Proverb |
| There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. ~ Woody Allen |
| The Anglo-Saxon conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t; it just keeps you from enjoying it. ~ Salvador de Madariaga |
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| If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? ~ John Churton Collins, |
| Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. ~ Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. ~ Bertrand Arthur William Russell, |
| It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ~ Walter Bagehot |
| Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. ~ George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, |
| Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes. ~ Lady Marguerite Blessington |