| To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| If thou wouldst preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations...For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed. The joy which she promiseth changeth to madness, and her enjoyments lead on to diseases and death. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick... -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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