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> [But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/but-in-the-morning-lust-is-always-furtive-it-dresses-as-mechanically/)

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## More by Henry Fairlie

> [The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/the-foundation-of-humility-is-truth-the-humble-man-sees-himself-as-he/)

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> [But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/but-in-the-morning-lust-is-always-furtive-it-dresses-as-mechanically/)

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> [Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/gluttony-and-lust-are-the-only-sins-that-abuse-something-that-is/)

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> [There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/there-is-a-middlebrow-snobbery-in-america-that-praises-everything-on/)

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> [We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/we-are-at-full-stop-we-think-we-have-arrived/)

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> [The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/the-most-important-fact-about-our-shopping-malls-as-distinct-from-the/)

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> [The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/the-desire-to-build-a-risk-free-society-has-always-been-a-sign-of/)

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> [Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-fairlie/love-wants-to-enjoy-in-other-ways-the-human-being-whom-it-has-enjoyed/)

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