"It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit."
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"Pleasure is everything."
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"Don't trade future blessings for temporary pleasures."
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"Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah."
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"I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up."
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"Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps."
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"Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do."
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"When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial."
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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
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"Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave."
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"Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies."
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"A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?"
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"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."
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"The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure."
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"The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit."
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"Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly."
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"The great source of pleasure is variety."
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"Pleasure itself is not a vice"
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