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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
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Lazy
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Men
Vices
Abhorrent
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Tempt
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