Quote by Basil Bunting
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? - Basil Bun

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

Other quotes by Basil Bunting

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots. – Basil Bunting

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Government
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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Poetry
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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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Temptation

Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs. – Michael Josephson

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Temptation

You oughtnt to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. – Anthony Hope

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Temptation

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. – Orlando A. Battista

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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 – Bible

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My business is to prevent the future. – Ray Bradbury

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After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity. – Charlie Gonzalez

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. – Henry David Thoreau

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