Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon, That shall eat with a fiend. Chaucer

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to
jeer and flout him,for he cannot bear scorn. -Martin Luther

The devil…the prowde spirit..cannot endure to be mocked.—Thomas More

Forbidden things have a secret charm.—Tacitus

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.– La
Rochefoucauld

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Graham J Weeks

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