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“The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.”

Pleasure Position Ridiculous Expenses Fleeting

Author:Samuel Johnson

“PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.”

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Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“It's perversion. Don't you see what it is? It's not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that's natural. To reach out to take it, that's human, that's natural. But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking. Don't you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?”

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Author:Abraham Polonsky

“Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your private pleasure at the expense of your spouse, you are living against yourself and destroying your joy. But if you devote yourself with all your heart to the holy joy of your spouse, you will also be living for your joy and making a marriage after the image of Christ and His church.”

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Book:Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist