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It Is Only By Having Desire Thwarted, And Thereby Learning To Control It — In Other Words, By Becoming Civilized — That Men Become Fully Human.
-Theodore Dalrymple
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It Is Only By Having
Theodore Dalrymple
It Is Only By Having Desire Thwarted, And Thereby Learning To Control It — In Other Words, By Becoming Civilized — That Men Become Fully Human.
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