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Vice and Virtue
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Commenttiny.ag/ca72ttqk · ★★☆☆ Fair (289 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
Commenttiny.ag/9te2rxr1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (506 ratings) · submitted 1997
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
Commenttiny.ag/9uv5rp2p · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
Commenttiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Commenttiny.ag/mgrteolp · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. Hanlon, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
Commenttiny.ag/xjufzea6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (971 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Commenttiny.ag/54eiupku · ★★☆☆ Fair (395 ratings) · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Commenttiny.ag/koyhdrgm · ★★☆☆ Fair (838 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle, Rhetoric, in Vice and Virtue
The Art of Rhetoric (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (637 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
Commenttiny.ag/riquczeo · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue
Foundation (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/0ctojvkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.
Commenttiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
Commenttiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · ★★☆☆ Fair (1019 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
Commenttiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
Commenttiny.ag/mldrjipn · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Vice and Virtue
Commenttiny.ag/wj0czhzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
Commenttiny.ag/eljwsw1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
Commenttiny.ag/tsgrsoaf · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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