A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed until the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 18


A very just remark. Theologians have accordingly advised us to avoid the "occasions of sin" that incite or entice us to sin.


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