Quote by Robert Orben
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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Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If Im not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. – Robert Orben

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And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde

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

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses. – Franklin P. Jones

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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. – Arnold H. Glasow

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