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• Work out your salvation with diligence. -- Buddha, last word
• A wise woman never yields by appointment. -- Stendhal
• Two things only a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love. -- Antiphane
• Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
  -- W.V.O. Quine...
• ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others....
• ABSTAINER: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
• Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
• Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 412...
• Diligence is the mother of good fortune. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.
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