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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"Great sex is a natural drug."
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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
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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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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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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."
Man
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
Insult
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
Health
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Courage
"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
Business
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
Idleness
"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."
Age
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind
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