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Kill youself you pathetic depraves piece of putrid pigshit.
Think Progress » Gen. Paul Eaton Comes Out For Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 2010
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Kill youself you pathetic depraves piece of putrid pigshit.
Think Progress » Gen. Paul Eaton Comes Out For Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 2010
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This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.
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Certes, such is the unhappy condition of sinful nature, that not merely in acts that are morally doubtful it adopts the worse conclusion; but often it depraves by iniquitous subversion those which have the appearance of rectitude.
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Siberia, idleness depraves people, and often calls forth ugly feelings toward life.
Mother 2003
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This intemperance, so prevalent, depraves the appetite to such a degree, that a wanton stimulus is necessary to rouse it; but the parental design of nature is forgotten, and the mere person, and that for a moment, alone engrosses the thoughts.
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To satisfy this genus of men, women are made systematically voluptuous, and though they may not all carry their libertinism to the same height, yet this heartless intercourse with the sex, which they allow themselves, depraves both sexes, because the taste of men is vitiated; and women, of all classes, naturally square their behaviour to gratify the taste by which they obtain pleasure and power.
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The habit of gambling engendered by it ruins the temper, depraves the morals, and keeps up a constant state of excitement at variance with any settled and serious occupation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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It is not because war kills that it is the devil, but because it depraves; and it is because it depraves that it is condemned by the religious consciousness.
Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen
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QUOTATION: Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it.
Quotations 1919
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