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As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

Isaac Barrow
Men, Vices, Dry
Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.247
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.