Mark Twain Quotes About Temptation

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  There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Forbidden Love, Temptation

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Achievement, Smoking

  Following the Equator ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

  Mark Twain

  Temptation, Deals

• 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

  Mark Twain

  Evil, Temptation, Erring

• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  Mark Twain

  Fear, Halloween, Temptation

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 36

• Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

  Mark Twain

  Curves, Hands, Seductive

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