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Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
Born: Apr 4, 1802
Died: Jul 17, 1887

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Crime, Petty, Degrading, Habits, Miseries, Attendant, Indolence, Opens, Errors, Train, Dependence, Vice, Create, Many

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