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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a m

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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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverb

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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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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain. – Proverb

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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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