#strain

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

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"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. ↗

— Robert Browning

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