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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Samuel Johnson
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Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
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Boileau
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Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
17
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
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Samuel Richardson
16
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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Joseph Joubert
16
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Bertrand Russell
15
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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John Selden
15
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Samuel Johnson
14
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What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?
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Joseph Joubert
14
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Democritus
13
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Aldous Huxley
13
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Henry David Thoreau
12
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It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.
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Heraclitus
12
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Dale Carnegie
12
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A smart daughter ought not to examine her future husband too closely. She ought to conside...
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Alain-René Lesage
11
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Jean de La Fontaine
11
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When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.
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John Lancaster Spalding
11
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure,...
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Francis Bacon
11
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When a tree comes to be viewed, no longer as the body of the tree spirit, but simply as it...
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James Frazer
11
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
10
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Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carna...
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Thomas Aquinas
10
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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been...
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Michael Faraday
10
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To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; ...
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
10
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persua...
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Samuel Johnson
10
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me...
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William Hazlitt
10
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When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result...
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Leonardo da Vinci
10
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which ...
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Auguste Rodin
10
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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Jane Austen
10
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A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third...
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Anacharsis
10
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolera...
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Jane Austen
10
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There is more pleasure in loving, than in being belov'd.
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Thomas Fuller
10
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
9
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Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.
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Paul Claudel
9
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond...
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Titus Livius
9
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I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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Thomas Jefferson
8
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Gertrude Stein
8
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There's no pleasure i' living if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mi...
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George Eliot
8
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squa...
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Samuel Johnson
8
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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to ot...
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Walt Disney
8
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It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformi...
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Einstein
8
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a...
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Stendhal
8
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In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and volunta...
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Joseph Joubert
8
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Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restle...
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
8
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Bertrand Russell
8
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squa...
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Samuel Johnson
8
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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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George Ivanovich Gurdjieff
8
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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
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John Davison Rockefeller
8
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I do not believe in recovery. The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, i...
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Lillian Hellman
8
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Human nature is such that the spectacle of another's weakness awakens even in the best of ...
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André Maurois
7
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired, is something; but to inherit his property afterw...
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Honoré de Balzac
7
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In my view, wholesome pleasure, sport, and recreation are as vital to this nation as produ...
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Walt Disney
7
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played ...
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
7
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All knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in ...
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Francis Bacon
7
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Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to...
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Baltasar Gracian
7
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My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swayin...
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Khalil Gibran
7
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Samuel Johnson
6
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Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the a...
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Émile Chartier
6
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
6
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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William Hazlitt
6
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If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
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François de La Rochefoucauld
6
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Surprizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often...
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Jane Austen
6
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out b...
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Charles Lamb
6
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Jean de la Fontaine
6
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are ...
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Eric Hoffer
6
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Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is...
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Charles Baudelaire
5
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But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the di...
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Thucydides
5
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boas...
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George Orwell
5
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from ...
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Bertrand Russell
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