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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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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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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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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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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a 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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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
Pleasure
"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
Solitude
"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
Mind
"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
Destruction
"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
Beauty
"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."
Design
"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."
Character
"I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me."
Morality
"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
Body
"The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life."
Life
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