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“The secret of pleasure in life, as distinct from its great triumphs of transcendent joy, is to live in a series of small, legitimate successes. By legitimate I mean such as are not accompanied by self-condemnation.”

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Author:Sydney Thompson Dobell

“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”

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Author:Maxim Gorky

“What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.”

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Book:the new industrial state

Source: the new industrial state

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.”

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Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.”

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Book:Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality

Source: Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality

“Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.”

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Book:The Maxims of Marcel Proust

Source: The Maxims of Marcel Proust

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”

“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”

Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth

“Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.”

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Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc

“If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.”

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Book:Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life

Source: Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”

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Book:Either/ Or

Source: Either/ Or

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

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Author:Oscar Wilde

“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours with Flying feet”

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Author:Lord Byron