#pleasures

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. ↗

— John Zimmerman

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Voltaire

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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ↗

— William Wycherley

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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. ↗

— William Wycherley

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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

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Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

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