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Vices & Virtues

 A coward is a hero with a wife, children and a mortgage. 
Marvin Kitman (1929- )
 All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. 
Alexander Woolcott (1887-1943)
 Avarice is the sphincter of the heart. 
Matthew Green (1696-1737)
 Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. 
Anonymous
 Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. 
Horace Smith (1779-1849)
 I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. 
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933- )
 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
 It is better to be a coward for one minute than dead the rest of your life. 
Irish proverb
 It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. 
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
 My smoking might be bothering you, but it's killing me. 
Anonymous
 My virtue's still far too small, I don't trot it out and about yet. 
Colette (1873-1954)
 Never practice two vices at once. 
Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968)
 Nothing succeeds like success. 
Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
 Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is perhaps the strangest. 
De toutes les aberrations sexuelles, la plus singulière est peut-être encore la chasteté.
Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915)
 Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. 
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
 Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise. 
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
 People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. 
Henry James Byron (1834-1884)
 Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. 
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
 Temptation laughs at the fool who takes it seriously. 
Anonymous
 There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton restless. 
Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
 There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. 
P.J. O'Rourke (1947-2022)
 To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. 
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
 Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue. 
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
 Vice is its own reward. 
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999)
 Virtue has never been as respectable as money. 
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
 Virtue is its own revenge. 
E.Y. Harburg (1896-1981)
 We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. 
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
 While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several. 
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