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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
-Samuel Smiles
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For Want Of Self-restraint Many Men Are

Samuel Smiles
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
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Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. while he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. they are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—society, the state, the government, the commune—must give it to them. let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
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When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. you had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "both sides now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.
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