To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue. (Samuel Johnson)

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

Samuel Johnson

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