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| English | Russian |
| hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue | притворство – это дань, которую порок платит добродетели |
| idleness is the parent of vice | лень – мать всех пороков |
| poverty is no vice | бедность не порок |
| though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice | простота хуже воровства (simplicity is worse than robbery. used disapprovingly about a person whose naivety and blind trustfulness cause trouble, may do harm) |