Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.
Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42
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Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.