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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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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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

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