“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
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Margaret Atwood
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The Penelopiad
Source: The Penelopiad
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