“Men of unlimited means live lives of unbridled lust, and then, in their old age, they are helpless victims of their own impulses.”

— Upton Sinclair

https://books.google.com/books?id=CbfTjcDmA6gC&pg=RA1-PA26&lpg=RA1-PA26&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false The Book of Life (1921)

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American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist 1878–1968

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