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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

When you doubt, abstain.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.