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There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of

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

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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. – Max Eastman

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

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

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

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Pleasure is the bait of sin. – Plato

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