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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
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Minna Antrim
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Walter Bagehot
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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Young
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All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
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Alexander Woollcott
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
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Josh Billings
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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
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Pierre Bonnard
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Seneca
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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
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Virgil
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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
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C. S. Lewis
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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
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Bible
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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John D. Rockefeller
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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Samuel Johnson
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Honore De Balzac
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Epictetus
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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Moliere
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
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Samuel Johnson
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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Jane Austen
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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Pierre Charron
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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John Donne
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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
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Raymond Hitchcock
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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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Plato
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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
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Voltaire
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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60 votes
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
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Anita Loos
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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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Augustine J. Duganne
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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Proverb
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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
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Seneca
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Aldous Huxley
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
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Bible
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Harold J. Smith
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Aristotle
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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Margaret Drabble
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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Aaron Burr
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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Marina Warner
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
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Mary Little
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There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
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Lord Byron
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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Blaise Pascal
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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
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Charles Buxton
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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Albert Einstein
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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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Warren Buffett
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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
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John Petit-Senn
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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
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American Proverb
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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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