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Samuel Johnson

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

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

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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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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

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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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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."

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"Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after."

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"Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure."

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