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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Author:
Xenophon
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Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
Author:
Christoph Wieland
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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.
Author:
Lila Wallace
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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Author:
Tacitus
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Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Author:
Stendhal
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Author:
Richard Steele
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.
Author:
Francis Quarles
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
Author:
Dana Plato
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Author:
Jean Paul
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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.
Author:
Leonard Nimoy
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
Author:
Nagarjuna
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
Author:
John Mortimer
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It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
Author:
Barbara McClintock
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A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Author:
Groucho Marx
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Author:
Shane MacGowan
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Author:
Anita Loos
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Author:
Vernon Lee
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I find pleasure in things that are simple.
Author:
Stephan Jenkins
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
Author:
Robinson Jeffers
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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Author:
Aldous Huxley
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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Author:
Horace
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Author:
Alfred Hitchcock
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
Author:
Rex Harrison
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Author:
Zane Grey
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
Author:
Jonathan Franzen
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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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.
Author:
Michael Faraday
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Author:
Charles Eames
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Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Author:
John Donne
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Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.
Author:
Alex Cox
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
Author:
William Cowper
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It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.
Author:
Don Cornelius
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How delicious is pleasure after torment!
Author:
Pierre Corneille
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.
Author:
Max Cannon
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I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.
Author:
Jeanne Calment
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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.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
Author:
William Burroughs
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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Author:
Pierre Bonnard
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Author:
Hilaire Belloc
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Author:
Jane Austen
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But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.
Author:
Piers Anthony
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Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Author:
Arthur Adamov
