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• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — Saint Augustine
• Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather… — Samuel Butler
• I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I… — Giacomo Casanova
• Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex. — Kurt Angle
• My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence… — Robert E. Lee
• The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker… — Clement of Alexandria
• Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised. — Rachel Maddow
• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
• Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. — Frances E. Willard
• When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining… — Clive James
• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence. — Robert Herrick
• It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion… — James Madison

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