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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. ↗

— Epictetus

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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. ↗

— Truman Capote

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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. ↗

— Camille Claudel

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

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