original as sin

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

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"Say what you will, once whispered a friend of mine, there are things in him strong as poison, and original as sin."
"But I had no guess of it then as I sat writing by the fireside, in what seemed the spring-tides of a somewhat pedestrian inspiration; nor yet day by day, after lunch, as I read aloud my morning's work to the family. It seemed to me original as sin; it seemed to belong to me like my right eye."

Referring to the Christian concept of original sin.

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