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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
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"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."
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"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"Character must be kept bright as well as clean."
Character
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
Man
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
Advice
"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."
Love
"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
Learning
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
Pleasure
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
Conviction
"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."
People
"You must look into people as well as at them."
People
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