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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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"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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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
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"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
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"Don't look now, but that's my ex over there."Surely I'm not the only one who takes "don't look now" as "there's no better time than now." I looked."Bad, Ali!" Another slap to my arm. "Bad, bad, bad Ali! Have you no self control?"
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"Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin."
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"The Dragon King's gaze turned to her. Darcy watched him standing in the glow of the streetlight, completely mesmerized by the dragon tat that ran from the King's right shoulder, under his armpit, and down his side to the top of his right thigh. The dragon's head was at the front of the man's shoulder and had his mouth open as if on a roar. He was rearing with his wings up and out. It was his long tail that stopped at the King's thigh. The King glistened with sweat that made his muscles gleam in the light. Darcy had the absurd notion to run her hands all over his body, learning the feel of his hard muscles and warm skin."
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"One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God."
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"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."
Philosophy
"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."
Wisdom
"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics
"No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it."
Leadership
"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."
Justice
"No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place."
Politics
"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace."
Politics
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
Freedom
"The habit of using ardent spirits by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public and more trouble to me than all other causes. Were I to commence my administration again the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office would be Does he use ardent spirits?"
Politics
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
Politics
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