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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. - Marga

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. – Margaret Oliphant

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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. – Margaret Oliphant

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Gentlemen
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant

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Industry
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Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless. – Ovid

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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. – Orlando A. Battista

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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. – Joseph De Maistre

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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass. – Samuel Johnson

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