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Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. – Robert Orben

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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. – Robert Orben

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Society
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it arm around the shoulder humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. Its mean, mean stuff. – Robert Orben

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Humor
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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years. – Robert Orben

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Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me. – Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1588

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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. – Lane Olinghouse

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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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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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