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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – 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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Pleasure and discipline need to stay close friends. – Terri Guillemets

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain. – Proverb

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Dont mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. – Josh Billings

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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. – Georges Bernanos

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Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. – James A. Lovell

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