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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."
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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."
"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
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