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Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. - J. Petit-Senn

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. – J. Petit-Senn

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Self-Control
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address. – Lane Olinghouse

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Self-Control

And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Self-Control

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Self-Control

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. – Author Unknown

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Self-Control

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