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Ben Jonson - Not to know vice at all, and keep true...
Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel. (Ben Jonson)

Not to know vice at all, and keep true state, Is virtue, and not fate: Next to that virtue is to know vice well, And her black spite expel.

Ben Jonson

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