"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."

Pleasure, Regret

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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Pleasure, Property

"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Pleasure, Love, Life, Flowers, Joy

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

Stendhal, French Writer

Pleasure,

"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Pleasure, Reading

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Pleasure,

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Pleasure, Temptation

"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Pleasure, Felicity, Happiness, Human, Joy

"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Pleasure, Life, Joy, Travel

"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Pleasure, Food, Joy, Experience, Desire

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

Pleasure, Moderation

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

Home

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

Friendship

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

Truth

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

Age

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."

Learning

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

Literature

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."

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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."

"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

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"The incentive to ambition is the love of power."

"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about."

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward."

"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts."