The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest…

Charles Caleb Colton
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.210
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The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.210

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