#refrain

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#could #had #heart #known #love

Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. ↗

— Thomas Tryon

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#always #build #freedom #ideal #lost

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

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When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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