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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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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."
"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."
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"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."
"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."
"Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health."
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
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