wantonness

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Plenty begets Wantonness and Pride, Wantonness is apt to invent, and Pride scorns to imitate; Liberty begets Stomach or Heart, and Stomach will not be constrain’d.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.

They proceed from a Wantonness of Imagination, and rather divert the Mind than astonish it.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Thus thou art nought without Pride; and little would Pride profit without Wantonness, for bastards are the most numerous and the most fierce of all the subjects of my daughter Pride. 

From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Davies, Robert Gwyneddon

Tobacco then is nothing without money, nor money without Pride; and Pride is but feeble without Wantonness, and Wantonness is nothing without Idleness; Idleness without Hypocrisy, and Hypocrisy without Inconsiderateness. 

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry

The Thought, in this Place, is very lively and just, but quite obscur'd by the Redundancy and Wantonness of the Expression.

From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Pahl, Gretchen Graf