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If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.

Junius

If individuals have no virtues their vices may be of use to us.

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About Junius

Junius often refers to:

Junius (writer), the pseudonym of an 18th-century British political writer of strongly Whig principles
The nomen of the ancient Roman Junia gens
Junius or Iunius, the month of June on the ancient Roman calendar
Rosa Luxemburg's Junius Pamphlet (German: Junius-Broschüre), a nickname for a pamphlet Luxemburg wrote in prison in 1915
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