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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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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. – Oscar Wilde

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We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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