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Quote by Max Eastman
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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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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Laughter
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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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Pleasure is the bait of sin. – Plato

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Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. – William Henley

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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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He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. – Bible

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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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