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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home! ↗

— Charles Dickens

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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. ↗

— John Dryden

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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. ↗

— William Feather

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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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