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  • 21if you want a thing done well, do it yourself — Very similar to if you would be well served, serve yourself. 1541 M. COVERDALE tr. H. Bullinger’s Christian State of Matrimony xix. If thou wilt prospere, then loke to euery thynge thyne owne self. 1616 T. DRAXE Adages 163 If a man will haue his… …

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  • 22Hume's principle — The principle that the number of things with the property F equal the number of things with the property G if and only if there is a one to one correspondence between those that are F and those that are G. The attribution to Hume derives from the …

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  • 23pleasure principle — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, anima, appetite, appetitiveness, ardor, coconscious, collective unconscious, concupiscence, conscience, conscious self, curiosity, death instinct, desideration, desire, drive, eagerness …

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  • 24Vice — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vice vice Sgm: N 1 evil doing evil doing evil courses Sgm: N 1 wrongdoing wrongdoing Sgm: N 1 wickedness wickedness viciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 iniquity …

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  • 25corruption — I noun abuse of public trust, act of bribing, act of profiteering, baseness, breach of faith, breach of trust, bribery, complicity, conduct involving graft, corrupt inducement, corruptela, corruptibility, corruptio, crime, criminality, debasement …

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  • 26Charity (play) — Millais contemporary painting The North West Passage (1874) Charity is a drama in four acts by W. S. Gilbert that explores the issue of a woman who had lived with a man as his wife without ever having married. The play analyses and critiques the… …

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  • 27James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton — Infobox Monarch name =James Hamilton title =Duke of Hamilton caption =James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton by Daniel Mytens. reign = coronation = othertitles =Marquess of Hamilton Marquess of Clydesdale Earl of Arran Earl of Cambridge Lord… …

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  • 28abuse — 1 /ə byüz/ vt abused, abus·ing 1: to put to a use other than the one intended: as a: to put to a bad or unfair use abusing the powers of office b: to put to improper or excessive use abuse narcotics …

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  • 29bad repute — I noun abasement, abjection, abjectness, abomination, allegation, amoralism, amorality, animadversion, antagonism, aspersion, attaint, bad character, bad influence, bad name, betrayal, calumniation, calumny, castigation, censoriousness, censure,… …

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  • 30perversion — I noun abasement, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abomination, abuse, baseness, contamination, corruptio, corruption, debasement, debauchery, defilement, degradation, demoralization, depravatio, depravation, depravity, evil… …

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