“For vice repeated is like the wand’ring wind,
Blows dust in others’ eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.”
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Blows dust in others’ eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.”
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Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1.1.96-100)
Pericles