TEMPTATION. An irresistible force at work on a movable body.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]

A Book of Burlesques, “The Jazz Webster” (1924)
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
[Chrestomathy, ch. 30 "Sententiae" (1949)]