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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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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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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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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for 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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"The grace of God is courtesy."
God
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
Pleasure
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
Writing
"An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight."
Work
"Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone."
Soul
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
Autobiography
"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
Content
"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."
Friendship
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
Death
"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language."
History
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