Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will … - Vicesimus Knox

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Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both.

Vicesimus Knox

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(8 December 1752 – 6 September 1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest.

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The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both. - Vicesimus Knox

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