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

Pleasure, Temptation

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

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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing."

Francis Quarles, English Poet

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"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."

Barbara McClintock, American Scientist

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"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

Manuel Puig, Argentinian Author

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"Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."

Vernon Lee, British Author

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"Buying is a profound pleasure."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked."

Alex Cox, British Director

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"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in."

John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman

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"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."

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"You scoundrel, you have wronged me," hissed the philosopher, "May you live forever!"

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"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

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"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

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"Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

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"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

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"Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity."

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"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."

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"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."

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