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    Voltaire
    “The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
    ― Voltaire
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    Alice Hoffman
    “People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”
    ― Alice Hoffman, The Ice Queen
    tags: restraint, stoicism
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
    ― Orson Scott Card
    tags: remaining-silent, restraint, reticence, words
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    Frank Herbert
    “The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: desire, restraint
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    Tina Carreiro
    “When you give yourself to me, completely, I will bite you. Until then, my love, I will only nibble on you.”~Cole”
    ― Tina Carreiro, Power of the Moon
    tags: desi, hunger, love, paranormal, restraint, romance, soulmate, true-love, trust, vampire-romance
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    T.F. Hodge
    “The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.”
    ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
    tags: journey, passivity, path, peace, quotes, restraint, strength
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “What good is power when you're too wise to use it?”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: faint-heartedness, power, restraint, wisdom
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    Shanna Swendson
    “Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.”
    ― Shanna Swendson, Enchanted, Inc.
    tags: bad-boys, potential, restraint
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    Michael Bassey Johnson
    “The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.”
    ― Michael Bassey Johnson
    tags: absence, admiration, aloofness, breakup, closeness, coolness, distance, estranged, familiarity, fondness, friendship, frigidity, gap, hurt, left-behind, love-hurts, michael-bassey-johnson, ostracism, restraint, separation, stiffness
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