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"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
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"We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give."
Thought

"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."
Man

"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."
Family

"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."
Friendship

"By the work one knows the workman."
Work

"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."
Evil

"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Pleasure

"Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred."
Friendship

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."
Death

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."
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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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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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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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"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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