Quotemeal: Sep. 15th, 2005

Thursday, September 15, 2005

"Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."
— Mark Aulson

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Illustration of Mark Aulson — "Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that ... it only gets worse."

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