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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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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."
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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."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Buying is a profound pleasure."
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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
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"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
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"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
Friendship
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
Experience
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
Progress
"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."
Power
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
Man
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
Hope
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."
Man
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
Happiness
"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."
Grief
"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel."
Time
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