For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fig…

Samuel Smiles
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1872). Character, p.239
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1872). Character, p.239

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