Samuel Butler: The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure — Samuel Butler

The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it.

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