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“If you have not chosen me by secret ballot, neither have I gained office by any secret promises. I have not campaigned either for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency. I have not subscribed to any partisan platform. I am indebted to no man, and only to one womanmy dear wifeas I begin this very difficult job.”

Ifs Men Jobs Difficult Secret Promise Office Dear Vices Chosen Platforms Presidency Partisans Ballots Indebted

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Ebola haunted Zaire because of corruption and political repression. The virus had no secret powers, nor was it unusually contagious. For centuries Ebola had lurked in the jungles of central Africa. Its emergence into human populations required the special assistance of humanity's greatest vices : greed, corruption, arrogance, tyranny, and callousness.”

Source: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

“Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.”

Humans Heart Secret Virtue Victim Vices Driven Stealing Guilty Devoted Human Heart Infamy

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.”

People Care Interest Sin Secret Virtue Taken Evidence Inspired Vices Gossip Consolation Neighbour Malice Untrue Verify

Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.”

Secret Fortune Vices Avarice Secret Life

Author:Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

“Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.”

Secret Poverty Brother Habit Vices Debt Twins Foe Idleness Thrift Twin Brother

Author:Theodore T. Munger

“The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.”

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.”

Money Secret Virtue Cry Terrible Vices Tongue Owners Betray Creeps Gags

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.”

Way Passion Evil Secret Vices Surface Poison Stains

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.”

Men Giving Country Secret Virtue Path Five Pride Keys Demand Vices Manhood Masculine Dilemma Distinctive Grappling Courage To Love

Author:Waller R Newell

“Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion.”

Home Secret Vices Customs Hinduism Unbearable Degrade Yoke Widowhood

Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams