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“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“I doubt whether patriotism can stand the wear and tear and temptation of the front benches in the House of Commons.” Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
“People couldn't become truly holy . . . unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.” Terry Pratchett, Good Omens
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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