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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
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"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."
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"I can resist everything except temptation."
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"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
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"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
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"I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool."
Values
"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
Expediency
"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
Simplicity
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
Party
"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
Censure
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
Comfort
"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
Process
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
Gender
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences."
Consequence
"The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were:Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.'My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said.My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent."
Perception
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