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"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."
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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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"Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough."
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
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"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him."
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"There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook."
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"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
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"Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."
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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
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"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
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