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Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

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

— A. J. Liebling

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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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

— Samuel Richardson

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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