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To abstain from favoured foods is a hard test; to abstain from carnal intercourse is a still harder one. To the common mind, devoid of metaphysical faculty, this may seem far enough to travel. But to the developed mind the hardest of all tests must yet be undergone--to abstain from egoistic thought, feeling, and action.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 1 : Uplift Character > # 87