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From: CBS News Sunday Morning
Date: 20000213
Author:Charles Osgood

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OSGOOD: Our trip down the list of the seven deadly sins takes us now to lust, which our dictionary defines as an overwhelming desire or craving, particularly an intense or unrestrained sexual craving. Saint Augustine for one knew all about lust. In his confessions he recalled with shame the half-hearted prayer he uttered in his libertine youth, "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet. For I was afraid," he goes on, "lest thou shouldst hear me too soon, and too ...

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