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"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."

"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."

"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."

"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."

"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."

"If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?"

"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."

"Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected, it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17."

"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."

"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."

"People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it."

"If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."
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