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Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.

William Cowper

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Cowper, William. The Task. London: Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 2.

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Cowper, William. "The Task." William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems, edited by James Sambrook. Routledge, 2016, bk. 2.

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No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Publilius Syrus

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

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Behn, Aphra. The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers. 24 Mar. 1677, Duke's Theatre, Dorset Gardens, London, England, UK, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

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Behn, Aphra. "The Rover." The Rover and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

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The great source of pleasure is variety. Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect; and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson

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Johnson, Samuel. "Butler." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. "Wordsworth in the Tropics." Do What You Will. Chatto & Windus, 1929.

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Anything different is good.

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Groundhog Day. Directed by Harold Ramis, Columbia Pictures, 1993.

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Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

Quintilian

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Quintilian. Institutio Oratoria [Institutes of Oratory]. c. 95 AD, bk. 1, ch. 12, sect. 5.

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Qu'est-ce que le romantisme?" Salon de 1846. 1846.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Salon of 1846." Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, translated by P. E. Charvet. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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