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“I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.”
“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.”
“Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.”
“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.”
“The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.”
“Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.”
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Temptation is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Bryant Washburn, Eva Novak, and June Elvidge. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.