Pleasure Quotes
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.
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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
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Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.
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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
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It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.
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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
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They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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Coffee isn't just a source of pleasure for me: it is something I rely on to get me through the day.
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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
