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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
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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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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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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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"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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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Buying is a profound pleasure."
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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
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"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
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"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
Friendship
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
Religion
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."
Experience
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind
"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."
Act
"Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them."
Love
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Courage
"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."
Time
"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
Mistake
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