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Diseases are the tax on pleasures.


John Ray
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.


Aristotle
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I actually have a lot of guilty pleasures.


Nikki DeLoach
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.


Bernard Malamud
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.


Henry David Thoreau
Tags: Man Rich Whose
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.


Benjamin Disraeli
Tags: Life Within Lie
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.


Moliere
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.


William Feather
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I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.


A. R. Rahman
Tags: Time Many Too
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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.


Elbert Hubbard
Tags: Just Also True
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Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.


John Zimmerman
Tags: Your Being Put
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'Unknown Pleasures' is a very important record for me. It was the first LP that I recorded.


Peter Hook
Tags: Me Very First
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.


Epictetus
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.


Robertson Davies
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Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.
Nicholas Kristof
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.


Christian Nestell Bovee
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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
David Brainerd
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
Tags: Most Even Without
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
Francois Fenelon
I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
Joyce Brothers
Tags: Money Own Working
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
Denis Diderot
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.
Vita Sackville-West
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
Adam Mansbach
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Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
Billy Collins
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
David McCullough
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
Jane Rule
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.
Simon Hoggart
Tags: You Like Get
Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life's ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Tags: God Always Life
One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
Willem Dafoe
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The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading.
Paul Harding
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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.
John Green
You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
Wale
Tags: Music You Me
There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
E. F. Benson
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