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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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"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?"

"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

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

"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."

"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

"Great sex is a natural drug."

"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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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."

"Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires."

"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
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