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The Sin of Greed: one of the Big Seven. You know: Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony.
bugged me, though, was how virulently anti-Semitic Ford was.
Vampire bats, contrary to popular superstition, do not suck the blood from their victims. They make a bite, infuse the wound with an anticoagulant which, believe it or not, is called draculin, and then lick at the oozing blood.
Almost all senior faculty members had to take a turn as chair, but fortunately I was murdered before my number came up. That is, my number came up before my number came up.
I felt sorry for the boys and occasional girls who died this way. They seemed more stupid than evil, and in their final act of dying, they actually did the world good service by taking themselves out of the gene pool.
“Ah, sin. Yes. The Bible. I was reading the ‘Thou Shalts’ and ‘Thou Shalt Nots’ from the time I was a child. Your description of it as a rulebook seems apt to me. Or a set of instructions. But where is the discussion of goodness, other than in following the rules?”
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
