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Nothing annoys me more than to be told I am not supposed to do something I enjoy because it is lacking in dignity. That has nothing to do with dignity. That's insecurity masking itself as dignity.

— Veeck—As In Wreck by Bill Veeck, Ed Linn, Bob Verdi (Page 311)

you will be gradually freed from the tiresome business of providing Pleasures as temptations... you will find that anything or nothing is sufficient to attract his wandering attention. You no longer need a good book, which he really likes, to keep him from his prayers or his work or his sleep; a column of advertisements in yesterday’s paper will do. You can make him waste his time not only in conversation he enjoys with people whom he likes, but in conversations with those he cares nothing about on subjects that bore him. You can make him do nothing at all for long periods. . . . All the healthy and outgoing activities which we want him to avoid can be inhibited and nothing given in return, so that at last he may say, as one of my own patients said on his arrival down here, “I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked”.

— The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, Joss Ackland (22%)