Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Never trust a man without vices...

He spoke in hard and angry earnest, if a man ever did," replied the girl, shaking her head. "He is an earnest man when his hatred is up. I know many who do worse things; but I'd rather listen to them all a dozen times, than to that Monks once.