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Virtue/Decadence
- Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
- -- H. L. Mencken
- There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
- -- Michel de Montaigne
- The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- -- Paula Poundstone
- I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
- -- Mae West
- Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
- -- Mae West
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
- -- Oscar Wilde
- I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
- -- Oscar Wilde
- It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- -- Oscar Wilde
- Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- -- Oscar Wilde
- The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
- -- Virginia Woolf
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