Margaret Oliphant's Quote - Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

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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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Margaret Oliphant

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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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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant

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