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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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