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The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.

A. C. Bradley
vices suffering men

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

A. J. P. Taylor
england vices looks
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women,... by Aaron Eckhart

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.

Aaron Eckhart
vices men thinking

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

Aaron Hill
deception vices joy
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damne... by Abraham Lincoln

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln
vices motivational men
If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able... by Abraham Lincoln

If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Abraham Lincoln
able vices ifs
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil... by Abu Bakr

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Abu Bakr
goodness vices evil

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Adam Smith
excess vices fear

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

Agnes Repplier
vices half responsibility
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on th... by Alan Ayckbourn

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

Alan Ayckbourn
light vices trying

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

Alan Cumming
vices feelings sometimes
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than... by Alan Perlis

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Alan Perlis
computer vices change

I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.

Albert Camus
vices would-be men
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and jus... by Albert Pike

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

Albert Pike
hypocrisy vices justice
World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa. by Albert Schweitzer

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Albert Schweitzer
vices views world

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

Aldous Huxley
sacrifice vices travel

Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

Aldous Huxley
tired vices lust

Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the future. Then old men make the peace, and the vices of peace are the vices of old men: mistrust and caution.

Alec Guinness
vices men war

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Alexander Haig
alive vices president

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

Alexander Pope
vices monsters needs
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