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Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery. - Thomas Fulle

Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses. – Franklin P. Jones

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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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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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