355 Quotes About Vices

  • Author Matthew Pearl
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    We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink or two," Lowell suggested.

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  • Author Augustine of Hippo
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    Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    Mr Pin lit a cigar. Smoking was his one vice. at least, it was his only vice that he thought of as a vice. The others were just job skills.

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  • Author Sara Baume
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    I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, desperately, just to coax myself through each day.

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  • Author Natsuo Kirino
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    I have an unlimited [number] of vices—laziness, wastefulness, being too emotional. I mean to fix these things, but I have a feeling that my novels would then die, so I leave them be.

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  • Author Viorica Dragotel
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    Vices...all in us. Some hidden, some obvious, some convicted to death. Sometimes helping, sometimes destroying. Comes and goes. But they always stays. In our veins. In our brain. Our sweet adrenaline and struggle. Continuously. To make us feel the fake vivid life. Vices...

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