“…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”
Charles Dickens book Dombey and Son
Source: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 48
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”
— William Shakespeare, book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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