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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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Men always want to be a womans first love – women like to be a mans last romance. – Oscar Wilde

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

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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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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely. – Franklin P. Jones

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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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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