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"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."
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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."
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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."
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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"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."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake."
Money
"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
Work
"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
Leadership
"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."
Success
"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
Goal
"I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living."
Opportunity
"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character."
Character
"Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive."
Blame
"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."
People
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty."
Opportunity
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