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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias.
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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
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It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
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The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
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There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
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