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Card 6

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Who said "what in an individual was a vice, in aggregate may become a virtue”

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Card 7

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"“just as a raven does not provide for its young is not fulfilling the role of nature”

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Card 8

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what in an individual was a vice, in aggregate may become a virtue

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Card 9

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Sir Pol is not part of the main part of vice, and so can escape unscathed from the “folly of imitating that vice”

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Card 10

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the audience condemns Volpone’s amoral actions but have an “aesthetic appreciation of the entertainment provided by his duplicity”

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Card 11

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Volpone is “a sullen retreat to tragedy” since the characters are “so ill-conditioned that forbids the ‘sporting’ sympathy on which comedy must rely”

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Card 12

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“unspeakably, unexemplary mortals”

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Card 13

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Volpone’s self-destruction is in line with his “haughty audacity for caprice”

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Card 14

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“not a dead but painful weight on the feelings”. Wanted Celia and Bonario to be lovers.

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Card 15

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all the world choppeth and changeth...full of subtle and cunning merchants”

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