"It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable."

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Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould