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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."

"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
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"Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things."

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

"Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope."

"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

"Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."
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