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"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
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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."
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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."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
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"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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"That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it."
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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
Reflection
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
Perception
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
Existence
"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."
Literature
"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."
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"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."
Life
"In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one."
War
"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
Wisdom
"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."
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