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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
"Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rsFeed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thingThe Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey."
"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."
"Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster."
"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
"To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude."
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"I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know."
"At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them."
"My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not."
"I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years."
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