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• Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Self, Toil

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• Satanism encourages its followers to indulge in their natural desires. Only by doing so can you be a completely satisfied person with no frustrations which can be harmful to yourself and others around you. Therefore, the most simplified description of the Satanic belief is: indulgence instead of abstinence.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Frustration, Indulge In, Desire

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

  Daryl Hall

  House, Antiques, Architecture

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• The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Eye, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mistake, Blood, People

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• Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Ego, Fantastic

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1958). “The Affluent Society”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Numbers, Soul, Desire

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• The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

  Saadi

  Father, Teaching, Masters

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• The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

  George Santayana

  Heart, Eye, Men

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.120, Рипол Классик

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• Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

  Juvenal

  Pleasure, Produce, Greater

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Satires, XI, line 208, 1922.

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• For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Justice, Forever, Decay

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• The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.70

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• In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

  Sophie Germain

  Believe, Taken, Science

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• Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

  Saul Landau

  Learning, Adults, Boyhood

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• Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

  Joyce Cary

  Heart, Self, Play

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

  Carla Gugino

  Dark, Two, Chocolate

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

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• Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

  Iain Banks

  Book, Air, Self

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• I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

  Shirley Henderson

  Doom And Gloom, Laughing, Scottish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

  Dev Patel

  Moving, Television, Shooting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on vanity, lust, self-indulgence and despair, rather than the hope of the Holy Spirit. The Body of Christ needs to look and repent of our own fallenness.... Whatever arena Christians withdraw from goes to hell.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Christian, Hate, Vanity

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• An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

  Criss Jami

  Water, Abuse, Overindulgence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.

  Catherine Malandrino

  Fur, Default, Humans

  "Catherine Malandrino Loves Fur, Old Buildings, Cigarettes". Interview with Corbin Chamberlin, www.thecut.com. February 13, 2011.

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• New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role. And these pressures are bringing forward such traits as pleasure-mindedness, self-indulgence, materialism, and passivity as conspicuous elements of the American character.

  Vance Packard

  Character, Self, People

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• There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Trying, Scene, Careful

  Source: collider.com

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• Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

  Horace

  Freedom, Poet, Claims

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