"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."

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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Buying is a profound pleasure."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

Gertrude Stein, American 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 experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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

Michael Faraday, English Scientist

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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."

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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."

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

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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."

"To some extent I liken slavery to death."

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"In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought."

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