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...and discussed as one of the fine arts thus advises a young man who offers himself as a servant : " For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very...downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time."...

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...particular sentences ; such as the wellknown remark that ' if a man once indulges himself in murder, he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbathbreaking; and from that to incivility and procrastination.' One laughs at this whimsical inversion;...

...with it. Never tell me of any special work of art you are meditating—I set my face against it in Mo. For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very...robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbathbreaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path,...

...Never tell me of any special work of art you are meditating, — I set my face against it in toto. For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very...robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbathbreaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path,...

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