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• A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.… — Sun Tzu
• Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and… — Georges Bataille
• In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out… — William Butler Yeats
• The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• One of the very best of all earthly possessions is self-possession. — George D. Prentice
• Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared… — Pope Julius II
• Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth... — R.D. Blackmore
• To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched,… — Mary Webb

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