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Juvenal

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Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.
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No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.
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II, line 83.
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Compare: "There is a method in man’s wickedness, — It grows up by degrees
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Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and No King, Act v, scene 4.

 
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