“He had learned self-control in a hard school. He had been married for thirty years.”
Glen Cook book The Silver Spike
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 26 (p. 528)
“Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, book Lolita
Source: Lolita
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