“Idleness is the mother of all vices, but also of all virtues.”
Men of Action
Alain On Happiness (1928)
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“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Pt. I, Lib. II, Ch. VI.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
Source: Wealth, War, and Wisdom
“Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice — almighty gold.”
Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland, lines 1-2. Comparable to "The flattering, mighty, nay, almighty gold", John Wolcot, To Kien Long, Ode iv; "Almighty dollar", Washington Irving, The Creole Village.
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
"On Cant and Hypocrisy"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
Hansard HC 6ser vol 243 col 437 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199394/cmhansrd/1994-05-12/Debate-1.html
Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrat MP and colleague at the Scottish bar.
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