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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot..."
"Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home."
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
"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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"Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground - I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation - Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves."
"The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age."
"I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of."
"I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense-Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was on the right side; if you do not, you had better read some other History, for I shall not be very difuse in this, meaning by it only to vent my spleen against, and show my Hatred to all those people whose parties or principles do not suit with mine, and not to give information."
"We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured... It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."
"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time, but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."
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