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Not strictly; and although it's certainly true that a feeling of pleasure will invariably follow a struggle due to a sense of accomplishment, I don't think you necessarily have to go through that period of unpleasantness/struggle/whatever in order to take pleasure in something.
As to deserving pleasure (i.e. if you feel you are entitled to enjoy something), then I can only answer for myself, and only with a resounding yes. If I take pleasure in something for which I haven’t worked, then I take pleasure in it - or rather I take pleasure in the fact that I've received something regardless of whether or not I deserved to (free gift, free beer, etc.). If I take pleasure in something for which I've worked, then the pleasure is more from a sense of having achieved, both of which points lead me to the conclusion that just as the cause of pleasure is variable, so the morality surrounding it is also variable.
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