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title: "3 Ages Sin Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigid-schulte/in-the-middle-ages-the-sin-of-sloth-had-two-forms-he-said-one-was/)

[Brigid Schulte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigid-schulte/)

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> [Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mignon-mclaughlin/spiritual-sloth-or-acedia-was-known-as-the-sin-of-the-middle-ages-it/)

[Mignon McLaughlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mignon-mclaughlin/)

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> [“By the Middles Ages it was a sin to have sex with a child. If an adult were guilty of such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-j-carnes/by-the-middles-ages-it-was-a-sin-to-have-sex-with-a-child-if-an-adult/)

[Patrick J. Carnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-j-carnes/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93c/patrick-j-carnes-33171_children_by-the-middles-ages-it-was-a-sin-to-have_1604829.jpg)

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