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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. - Ge

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. – George Eliot

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All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot

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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot

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With renunciation life begins. – Amelia E. Barr

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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said no. – Woody Allen

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. – Oscar Wilde

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