"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."

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"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."

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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."

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Richard Steele, British Dramatist

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"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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Samuel Johnson, English Author

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