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

Pleasure, Felicity, Happiness, Human, Joy

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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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"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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"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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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

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"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."

Arthur Adamov, Russian Playwright

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"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."

Dana Plato, American Actress

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"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."

Jean Paul, German Author

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"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."

Xenophon, Greek Soldier

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

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"None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again."

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"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."

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"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."

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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."

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"Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young."

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"The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls."

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"Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty sickness and captivity would without this comfort be insupportable."

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