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The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr read more
For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als
Einerleiheit des Etwas.]
It takes all sorts to make a world.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
