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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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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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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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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.
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
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All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
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