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Horace Mann Quotes: He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
         

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.


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