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Me: But it's not possible for a single human being to be fat, but eat abstemiously?— WordPress.com News
And they didn't partake of this abstemiously-no, it drizzled prodigiously down their chins and over their breasts, it left them lumpishly held to their couches as if their guts were a fatty magma set on cooling into the heaviness of stone.— VQR
I told him I had lived abstemiously, and found that it helped me in study.— A Retrospect
By taking that food abstemiously, one's sins born of Passion begin to fade.— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
'[866 Bhishma said, 'One that is engaged in the practice of the religion of nivritti, that eats abstemiously, and that has his senses under complete control, can attain to Brahma which is immutable and which is above primordial nature.— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12

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