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Pleasure Quotes
"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
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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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"A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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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."
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"Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure."
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"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour."
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"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
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"I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working."
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"Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly."
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"The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need."
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"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
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"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."
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"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
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"Writing is self-pleasure."
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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice."
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"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free."
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"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."
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