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Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've conquered human nature. — Charles Dickens

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Subdue your appetites my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby · 1838
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Topic
Self-controlAppetiteStoicismHuman nature
Medium
Novel
Time
1838
Person
Charles Dickens
Provenance
Current citation
Dickens, Charles. Nicholas Nickleby, edited by Mark Ford. Penguin, 1999, ch. 5.
Original citation
Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, Apr. 1838, issue 2, ch. 5.

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