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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde
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Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Yiddish proverb
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. -Thomas Jefferson
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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

William S. Burroughs
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The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. -O. A. Battista
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Henry David Thoreau
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. -Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Marie Henri Beyle (stendhal)
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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Raymond Hitchcock
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it. -Alexander Smith
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle
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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

Socrates
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? -Oscar Wilde
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson
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No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

William Shakespeare
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Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim. -William Shakespeare
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare
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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Horace Mann
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure. -Michel de Montaigne
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She is the least benightedly unintelligent organic lifeform it has ever been my distinct lack of pleasure not to have been able to avoid meeting.

Douglas Adams
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Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Epicurus
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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. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Lord Chesterfield
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier
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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. -Lawana Blackwell
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Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams
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A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. -Evelyn Waugh
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