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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. |
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- Walter Gagehot
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. |
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- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. |
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- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. |
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- Elias Canetti
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American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. |
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- Betty Naomi Friedan
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. |
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- Thomas Jefferson
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. |
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- Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
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Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. |
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- Henry David Thoreau
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As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust. |
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- Wystan Hugh Auden
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Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse. |
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- Francis Quarles
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