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To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

Jeremy Taylor

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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
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Priest
Theologian
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Liberty
Servant
Cannot
Longing
Become
Meat
Anything
Smoke
Men
Habit
Impatiently
Drink
Desirous
Lose
Abstain
Loses
Perpetually

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