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The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. — Clifton Fadiman
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Unknown Author
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of… — Camille Paglia
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things… — Anne Lamott
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances… — Thomas Gray
This my goodness does to endow the souls of the just more fully with spiritual riches when for my love they are stripped of material… — St. Catherine of Siena
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of… — Unknown Author
Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but… — David Berg
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much… — Dorothy Stang
I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs. — Roger Caras
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and… — Walter Scott
Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the… — Mary Caroline Richards
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes — Luigi Pirandello
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be… — Oliver Goldsmith
It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell… — Saint Francis de Sales
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion. — Ivan Panin
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an… — Barbara Kruger
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it — Darren Criss
I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It's a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I'm… — Chris Farley

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