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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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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

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Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. ↗

— Norman Lear

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

— C. S. Lewis

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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