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Pleasure Quotes
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."
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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."
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"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."
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"Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice."
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"It's always a pleasure to find something that matters."
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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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"Ever let the Fancy roam Pleasure never is at home."
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"Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy."
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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with 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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"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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"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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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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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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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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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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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern 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 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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"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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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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