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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?"
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."
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"Tomorrow is a thief of 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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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."
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"I find pleasure in things that are simple."
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"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
Lie
"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
Man
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
Travel
"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
Content
"Money gives me pleasure all the time."
Money
"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
"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
"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language."
History
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
Pleasure
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