Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it. – Sir John Lubbock

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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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