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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I te

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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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. – Oscar Wilde

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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. – Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 19

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There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. – Charlotte Dacre, The Passions, 1811

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The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. – Vida D. Scudder

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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now its really bad because everything weve done is de-humanizing education. Its destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. – William Glasser

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My parents divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that. – Jennifer Aniston

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