Pleasure Quotes
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old.
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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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In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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When the baby emerged and I saw her, black-haired, a violet organism that, full of energy, writhed and wailed, I felt a physical pleasure so piercing that I still know no other pleasure that compares to it.
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It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
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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.
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I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
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In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.
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Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.
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Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
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The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.
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The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
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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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At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.
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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.
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Business first, then pleasure.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
