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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Culture
Henry Van Dyke

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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Pleasure
Albert Einstein

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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
Recreation
George Eliot

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
Truth
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
Generosity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with the bad.
Literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Pleasure
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Pleasure
Epictetus

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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Children
Epictetus

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Enthusiasm
Desiderius Erasmus

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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Complaints and Complaining
Francois FeNelon

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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Sports
Peggy Fleming

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
Work
B. C. Forbes

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Fashion
Benjamin Franklin

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Pleasure
Benjamin Franklin

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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
Gambling
French Proverb

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There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.
Misfortunes
French Proverb

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Popularity
Margaret Fuller

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The devil himself is good when he is pleased.
Goodness
Thomas Fuller

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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Quality
Mahatma Gandhi

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Friends and Friendship
Kahlil Gibran

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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Work
Maxim Gorky

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Suffering
George Gurdjieff

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun