Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. – Thomas Carlyle

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. – Honore de Balzac

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. – Aristotle

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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. – Chinese Proverb

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