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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."
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"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."
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"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."
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"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."
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"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
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"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."
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"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
Fear

"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."
Anger

"His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world."
Knowledge

"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
Economy

"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
Man

"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
Truth

"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
Law

"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
Beauty

"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
Poetry

"A fool and his words are soon parted."
Fool
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