DOWN, DOWN, DOWN
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 to procrastination. Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), quoted in The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed. Robert Byrne (Atheneum, New York), 1982.
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