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

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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. – John Ruskin

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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. – George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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