He that imposes an oath makes it, Not he that for convenience takes it Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made.
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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.Samuel Butler
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious we call it hypocrisy
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For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale.
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Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.
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