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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
Preacher
Theologian
Men
Vices
Abhorrent
Offer
Tempt
Master
Demented
Offers
Dishonest
Masters
Theft
Virtue
Eaten
Incorrigibly
Passion
Vice
Inducement
Work
Lazy
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