All sensible people agree in thinking that large seminaries… - Vicesimus Knox

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All sensible people agree in thinking that large seminaries of young ladies, though managed with all the vigilance and caution which human abilities can exert, are in danger of great corruption.

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

L’hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.

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.

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