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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. – Buddha

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You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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