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Quotes about Dissipation

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
- Hannah More
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
- Mark Twain
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
- Confucius
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
- George Washington
People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for your to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boreing way there was.
- Ernest Hemingway