The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ✨ Sam…

Samuel Butler
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. ✨ Samuel Butler (2014). The Notebooks of Samuel Butler, p.47, The Floating Press
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