A timely subject. I read this last night so I thought I'd pass it on.

 During the American Revolution John Adams became so distressed by the
behavior of the American troops that he wrote to his wife Abigail,
"There is too much corruption, even in this infant age of our Republic.
Virtue is not in fashion. Vice in not infamous."

Taken from "John Adams" by; David McCullough - Simon & Schuster


John
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Subject: Vice and Virtue


The Social History Society will hold its 27th annual conference, 4-6
January 2002, in Manchester, England, on the theme of "vice and
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