not a joke, but more lighthearted

"The vices help make virtues just as poisons help make medicines.  Diluted and blended correctly, they are quite useful against the evils of life."
--Francois de La Rochefocauld

The Book of VICES: A Collection of Classic Immoral Tales

Edited by Robert J. Hutchinson

Dedicated as follows:

 To my children, 

Robert John and James Timothy,

and to my wife, 

Glen Ellen,

the source of all my happiness

(and many of my vices)