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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
-Blaise Pascal
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Some Vices Only Lay Hold Of Us

Blaise Pascal
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
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The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. we all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. but perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.
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Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
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There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
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We ask the leaf, "are you complete in yourself?" and the leaf answers, "no, my life is in the branches." we ask the branch, and the branch answers, "no my life is in the root." we ask the root, and it answers, "no my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. keep the branches stripped of leaves, and i shall die," so it is with the great tree of being. nothing is completely and merely individual.
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Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. with its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.
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