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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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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."
"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."
"The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction."
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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."
"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."
"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead."
"Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be."
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