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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"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."
"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
"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?"
"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference."
"Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike."
"This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock."
"We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek."
"He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted."
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