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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. – Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Pain
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Samuel Johnson
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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He who is not tempted, what does he know? And he who is not tried, what are the things he knows? Ecclesiasticus – Bible

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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. – John Milton

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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? – Basil Bunting

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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue. – William Shakespeare

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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. – J. Edgar Hoover

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