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An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. – Vida D. Scudder

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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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Discipline is remembering what you want. – David Campbell

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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

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