#plea

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. ↗

— Alex Campbell

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Little things please little minds. ↗

— Ovid

#little minds #little things #minds #please #things

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#hard #hard work #how #less #much

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#come #confrontations #forward #i #kind

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#feel #formerly #had #i #laugh

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ↗

— Ovid

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At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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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

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night. ↗

— Chanakya

#does #good #good wife #her #him