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Quote by Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroy

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

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There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. – Max Eastman

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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality. – Nathaniel Branden

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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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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. – Jane Austen

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