All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, …

Vladimir Nabokov
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All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. ✨ Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). Novels, 1955-1962, Library of America
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