#pleasures

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. ↗

— Moliere

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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. ↗

— Moliere

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

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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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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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

— Nora Roberts

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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

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