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There are Seven Deadly Social Sins: Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Commerce without morality. Pleasure without conscience. Education without character. Science without humility. Worship without sacrifice. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

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If it’s dangerous, then you go first. If it’s pleasurable, then I’ll be brave and lead the charge.
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— Jarod Kintz

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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

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It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

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The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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