| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 28902 |
| QUOTATION: | You oughtnt to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anthony Hope (18631933), British author. Dolly Foster and Mr. Carter, in The Dolly Dialogues, no. 14 (1894).
Full name is Anthony Hope Hawkins. |
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