Oscar Wilde quote about strength from An Ideal Husband - there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
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there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
 Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband (1895). copy citation

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Author Oscar Wilde
Source An Ideal Husband
Topic strength courage temptation
Date 1895
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/885/885-h/885-h.htm

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“I had no idea that you, of all men in the world, could have been so weak, Robert, as to yield to such a temptation as Baron Arnheim held out to you.
sir robert chiltern. Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not—there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, a terrible courage. I had that courage.” source

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