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Tag Tag Temptation
They rushed into it with their eyes open because they could not resist the bait.
Arnold J. Toynbee The Western Question in Greece and Turkey · 1922

Quotes

“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Compensation, 1841 · Primary source

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

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