Excerpt from "Mental Thistles"

Why does not the fool prefer virtue to vice?

When one is so vile the other so nice.

The answer we find, by the very same rule.

The fool prefers vice, just because he's a fool.

Citation:

Frank, Bellew, (1881). A Bad boy's first reader. Retrieved 22 December 2009 from G.W. Carleton & Co.: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?b=UF00048476&v=00001