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Pleasure Quotes
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"It's always a pleasure to find something that matters."
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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."
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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."
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"The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction."
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"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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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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"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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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot..."
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"Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it."
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"The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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"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."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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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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"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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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Great sex is a natural drug."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home."
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"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."
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