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wallow

a muddy place or depression where animals wallow

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MARK TWAIN DESCRIBED the crow as "a gambler, a low comedian, a dissolute priest, a fussy woman, a liar, a thief, a spy, a professional hypocrite, a conspirator, a rebel, a meddler, an infidel, and a wallower in sin for the mere love of it." He lists nearly 30 "damnable traits," explaining "(the crow's) life is one long thundering ecstasy of happiness, and he will go to his death untroubled, knowing that he will soon turn up again ...

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I don't think I go through more than any other person but I tended to dwell on it more in the past and I wallow in it - I'm a wallower.

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