Guilty As charged 7 - Gluttony

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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

-Peter De Vries, American author and editor

Guilty As Charged 6 - Avarice

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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist.

Guilty As Charged 5 - Vanity

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‘Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.’

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Guilty As Charged 3 - Lechery

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A Shaikh beheld a harlot, and quoth he,

“You seem a slave to drink and lechery”;

And she made answer, “What I seem I am,

But, Master, are you all you seem to be?”

- Omar Khayyam

Guilty As Charged 2 - Wrath

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“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.”

- William Blake quotes (English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827)

Guilty As Charged 1 - Sloth

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"I am overcome by my own amazing sloth…Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?"

-Elizabeth Bishop, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976.