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"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."

"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."

"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."
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"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend."


"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray."


"O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place."
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