If Once A Man Indulges Himself In Murder, Very Soon He Comes To Think Little Of Robbing

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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think
little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
-- Thomas De Quincey (1785 - 1859)

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