“The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.”

—  Clementina Stirling Graham

Mystifications, Ch. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=FKMIAAAAQAAJ&q=%22The+best+way+to+get+the+better+of+temptation+is+just+to+yield+to+it%22&pg=PA18#v=onepage "Soiree at Mr. Russell's" (1859)

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