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It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

Kenneth Grahame

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Kenneth Grahame
Age: 73 †
Born: 1859
Born: March 8
Died: 1932
Died: July 6
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
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Restriction
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Vice
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Vices
Pursuit
Peculiarly
Social
Restrictions

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