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• If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Simple, Mind, Taste

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• ...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

  Ilona Andrews

  Drinking, Fighting, Simple

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• My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

  Tracy Letts

  Book, Simple, Onions

  Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.17, Theatre Communications Group

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