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"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
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"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."
"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."
"Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates."
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
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