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"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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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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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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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 can resist everything except temptation."
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"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula."
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"Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
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"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
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"Time stays, we go."
Time

"Life is a dead-end street."
Life

"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."
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"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."
Government

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
Government

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."
Reflection

"Don't overestimate the decency of the human race."
Society

"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
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