“ They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ”
- Katherine Anne Porter- Copy
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“ But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. ”
- Charles Evans Hughes- Copy
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“ Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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