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Letter "T" » Temptation
«Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction»
«Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.»
«Temptation to behave is terrible»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
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Temptation
«Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle»
«Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that?ll get you home earlier.»
«Saintliness is also a temptation»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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saintliness
«Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them»
Author: John Bunyan
(Author, Minister)
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Temptation
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honey, lion, roared, Roaring Lion, Samson, temptations
«Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Temptation
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at work, irresistible, Irresistible Force, movable, work on
«Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil»
«Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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scum, the fire
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