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"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
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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."
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
Explore more quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!"
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."
"Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world."
"Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker."
"Hence in solitude, or that deserted state when we are surrounded by human beings and yet they sympathize not with us, we love the flowers, the grass, the waters, and the sky. In the motion of the very leaves of spring, in the blue air, there is then found a secret correspondence with our heart."
"War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men."
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