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There's a great injustice in it, but the prudent and the profligate are all in this together.— Personal finance and money news, analysis and comment | guardian.co.uk
I would take the play out of the hands of the base and profligate, and give it to those who are virtuous and true.— The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning
Then there are one or two stories of him in the great country houses--at Bubb Dodington's where he met Dr. Young and disputed with him upon the episode of Sin and Death in Paradise Lost with such vigour that at last Young burst out with the couplet You are so witty, profligate, and thin At once we think you Milton, Death, and Sin and at Blenheim, where the old Duchess of Marlborough hoped to lure him into helping her with her decocted memoirs, until she found that he had scruples, when in a fury she snatched the papers out of his hands.— Books and Characters French and English
None but a profligate, a sensualist, a ruffian, could disbelieve.— Jane Talbot
God's goodness brought back from a profligate, a highwayman, and a robber.— The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

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