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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

George Bernard Shaw
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

Oscar Wilde
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I can resist anything but temptation. -Oscar Wilde
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

T. S. Eliot
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? -Robert Browning
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

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

Sam Levenson
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -Mae West
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Robert Orben
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For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

Catherine The Great
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. -Lane Olinghouse
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

W. N. Taylor
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

John Owen
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. -W. Somerset Maugham
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Mark Twain
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -George Bernard Shaw
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Rita Mae Brown
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. -Seneca
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

Seneca
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The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
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ASPERSE, v.t. Maliciously to ascribe to another vicious actions which one has not had the temptation and opportunity to commit. -Ambrose Bierce
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With the quick access we have to information, the temptation is to overemphasize one number, every jiggle.

Dick Mccabe
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The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again?

Peter Bart
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To exchange principles for popularity might be a temptation. It's at the core of populism. We must offer something else. -Kjell Magne Bondevik
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Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.

Bob Hope
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It's just too accessible. It's too easy. It's too big of a temptation for people.

Richard Hopkins
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The temptation to defeat the government will be overwhelming. They know that when this issue fades, their fortunes fade with it, so sooner is better than later. -Allan Gregg
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