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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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

— Nora Roberts

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A cooperative spirit enjoys a better harvest. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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