The problem with people who have no vices is that generally… - Vicesimus Knox

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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Vicesimus Knox

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

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At court, far from regarding ambition as a sin, people regard it as a virtue, or if it passes for a vice, then it is regarded as the vice of great souls, and the vices of great souls are preferred to the virtues of the simple and the small.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

There are no vices more dangerous than those which simulate virtue.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. - Vicesimus Knox

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