Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. -Margaret Oliphant

 

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.


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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

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The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

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