A Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Sylvia Townsend Warner
English - Novelist
December 6, 1893 - May 1, 1978

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