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What is self-control? it is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. to overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
-George Bernard Shaw
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What Is Self-control? It Is Nothing But

George Bernard Shaw
What is self-control? it is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. to overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
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