Pleasure Quotes
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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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Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.
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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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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
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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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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.
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And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.
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And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.
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Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
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It's fun to give pleasure to people.
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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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Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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Business first, then pleasure.
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Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
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When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.
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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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Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.
