Pleasure Quotes
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Business first, then pleasure.
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
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Life is a process not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part of that.
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Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.
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How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?
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Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.
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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
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Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'
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when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
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India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments.
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
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Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
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Love in my case is not indispensable to pleasure, nor is respect. Is it possible, therefore, that the disgust, the humiliation begin afterward, when a man subdues you and violates you at his pleasure solely because now you belong to him, love or not, respect or not?
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There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.
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The pleasure is our choice.
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When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
