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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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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. – Mick Jagger

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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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