#tempt

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. ↗

— George Savile

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

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The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered. ↗

— Todd McFarlane

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I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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