The youth who can sneer at exalted virtue, need only wait for age and experience to become a consummate knave.
Most arts require long study and application ; but the most useful art of all—that of pleasing—requires only the desire. It is by giving fair names to foul actions, that those who would start at real vice are led to practice its lessons, under the disguise of virtue.
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Globe, Volume I, Issue 7, 8 June 1874, Page 3
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67Untitled Globe, Volume I, Issue 7, 8 June 1874, Page 3
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