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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Vice
Vices
Hatred
Becomes
Virtue
Become
Wartime
May
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