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to restrain

Examples

Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves. Billy Corgan

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. James K. Polk

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Adam Smith

The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones. Roman Dmowski

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. Lois McMaster Bujold

It is easier to abstain than to restrain. French Proverb

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