"Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly"

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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

— Joseph Joubert