Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.

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And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.