Pleasure Quotes
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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I don't want to write things that people don't want to read. I would have no pleasure in producing something that sold 600 copies but that was considered very wonderful. I would prefer to sell 20,000 copies because the readers loved it. When I write books I don't actually think about the market in that way. I just tell myself the story. I don't think I'm talking to a 10-year-old boy or a six-year-old girl. I just write on the level the story seems to call for.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.
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You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
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Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure.
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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.
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What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.
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I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
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I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.
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Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox.
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One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.
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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
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Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.
