“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Source: The Story of My Life
“Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.”
Source: Bloodfever
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“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
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Recreation (1919)
Context: It is sometimes said that this is a pleasure-seeking age. Whether it be a pleasure-seeking age or not, I doubt whether it is a pleasure-finding age. We are supposed to have great advantages in many ways over our predecessors. There is, on the whole, less poverty and more wealth. There are supposed to be more opportunities for enjoyment: there are moving pictures, motor-cars, and many other things which are now considered means of enjoyment and which our ancestors did not possess, but I do not judge from what I read in the newspapers that there is more content. Indeed, we seem to be living in an age of discontent. It seems to be rather on the increase than otherwise and is a subject of general complaint. If so it is worth while considering what it is that makes people happy, what they can do to make themselves happy, and it is from that point of view that I wish to speak on recreation.
“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Quoted, Tender is the Night (1934)
