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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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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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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"Great sex is a natural drug."
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"Pleasure, sex - I never did understand this - but a system like the real world has it's on glitches and bugs."
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"Buying is a profound pleasure."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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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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"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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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."
People
"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."
Morality
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
Imagination
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
Courage
"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
Health
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
Wonder
"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."
Criticism
"The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds."
Nature
"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."
Nature
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