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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ↗

— Fisher Ames

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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ↗

— George Washington

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