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"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
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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."
"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
"My mom's coming home soon,' I said. 'We should go to your place.'Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. 'I have rules about who I take there.' I was getting really tired of that answer. 'If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?' I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. 'Once I'm inside, I can never leave?'Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. 'Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back."
"When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin."
"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
"Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster."
"If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting."
"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair."
"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
"Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all."
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"If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
"Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it."
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
"One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character."
"Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy."
"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."
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