All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.
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Henry Ward Beecher
There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.
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Mark Twain
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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W. M. Taylor
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Tacitus
After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by...
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Horatio Seymour
More Quotes By Douglas Jerrold
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
