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  • Theyare all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms14:3.

  • But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, likethe wind, havetaken us away.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Isaiah 64:6.

  • If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apttoteach; Not giventowine, nostriker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
      Timothy 3:1^3.

  • She is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.

    - Ezra Loomis Pound
      Lustra,'The Garden'.

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