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Quotation from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

Oscar Wilde (spoken by Lord Henry Wotton)

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #174 (1891 text))

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

A paradox from Lord Henry's garden speech, which the plot puts to the test over the next eighteen years of Dorian's life.

Citation: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #174 (1891 text)). (id the-picture-of-dorian-gray-q4)

Portrait: Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony. Three-quarter-length photograph, seated, Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.

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