I found the following written in one of my notebooks. I've no idea whether I wrote it, or if I found it somewhere and copied it out. I could google it, I suppose; but that would be a tiresomely literal minded way of going about things.
Duty has this advantage over pleasure: that whilst doing one's duty is often a pleasure in its own right, that moment when indulging in one's favourite pleasure becomes a duty is the moment the pleasure dies.
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