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• Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

  John Galsworthy

  Dream, Littles, Forgiven

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• If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

  Alethea Kontis

  Interesting, Fantasy, Knows

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Careers, Criticism

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• When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

  David Levithan

  Rip, Indulge, Ifs

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.25, Egmont UK

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• Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Lying, Thinking, Keys

  1989 The Remains of the Day,'Day Six Evening'

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• It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Simple, Thinking, Dangerous

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.141, Harlequin

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• I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

  Eloisa James

  Christmas, Addiction, Glitter

  "Paris in Love: A Memoir". Book by Eloisa James, April 3, 2012.

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• You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Fear, People

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.199, e-artnow

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• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Luxury, Enlightenment, Liberty

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• When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Lying, Anxiety, Use

  'Iolanthe' (1882) act 2

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• Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength for socialism which traditional liberalism sadly lacks. Speculation about general principles provides an opportunity for the play of the imagination of those who are unencumbered by much knowledge of the facts of present-day life. Their ideas suffer from inherent contradictions, and any attempt to put them into practice must produce something utterly different from what they expect.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Character, Opportunity

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• I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Retreat, Film, Interest

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• I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wine

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• The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

  Salman Rushdie

  Enemy, Important, Terrorism

  "Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder" by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Eye, Sirens, Illusion

  Gertrude Stein (1954). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: As fine as Melanctha, 1914-1930”

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• My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

  Pharrell Williams

  My Favorite, Dishes, Crabs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Patriotic, Government, Practice

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• It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.

  Seamus Heaney

  Mean, Warrior, Winning

  Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

  Bill Watterson

  Excess, Financial, Kind

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Looks, Welcome

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Philosophical, Writing

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

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• Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Unnecessary, Sophisticated

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• I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

  Christine Baranski

  Drinking, Clothes, Adore

  Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Relief, Delight

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.128, PDFreeBooks.org

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• We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

  Mark Twain

  Cutting, Men, Mad

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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