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

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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson

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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph De Maistre

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. – John Bunyan

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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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