They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another. (Thomas Browne)

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

Thomas Browne

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