“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.”

—  Tryon Edwards

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 416.

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American theologian 1809–1894

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