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Quote on a picture of the Rhone with Condrieu in the back ground.

“Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)

Author YahooeyPosted on November 29, 2022November 28, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Mason Cooley, vice, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote with a portrait of William Hazlitt.

“Does the love of virtue denote any wish to discover or amend our own faults? No, but it atones for an obstinate adherence to our own vices by the most virulent intolerance to human frailties.” — William Hazlitt, “On the Pleasure of Hating,” The Plain Speaker

Author YahooeyPosted on September 8, 2021September 7, 2021Categories QuotationsTags intolerance, own faults, vice, virtue, William HazlittLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

“By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.” — Edmund Burke, Reflections on The Revolution in France

Author YahooeyPosted on September 7, 2019August 24, 2019Categories QuotationsTags Edmund Burke, men, Reflections on the Revolution in France, viceLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.

“Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.” — Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw

Author YahooeyPosted on November 10, 2018October 29, 2018Categories QuotationsTags accusation, Joe Orton, ruin, vice, What the Butler SawLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.

“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.” — John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

Author YahooeyPosted on May 30, 2018May 19, 2018Categories QuotationsTags Fanny Hill, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, vice, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!” — Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son

Author YahooeyPosted on November 9, 2012January 18, 2019Categories QuotationsTags Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, excess, vice, virtueLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.

“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image

Author YahooeyPosted on August 19, 2012January 11, 2021Categories QuotationsTags Daniel J. Boorstin, illusions, Pseudo-Events, vice, weaknessLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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