No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less li… - Vicesimus Knox

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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Vicesimus Knox

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

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O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee?

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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. - Vicesimus Knox

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