The limits of vice and virtue are wretchedly ill-defined. Half the vices that the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
The Way of All Flesh, ch. 52 [Pryer] (1903)
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