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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson

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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Pain
Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Pain
Samuel Johnson

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
Samuel Johnson

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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Revenge
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Arts and Artists
Pauline Kael

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Pleasure
Soren Kierkegaard

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Critics and Criticism
Jean De La Bruyere

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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Deception
Jean De La Fontaine

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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Pleasure
C. S. Lewis

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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
Joy
C. S. Lewis

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Pleasure
Mary Little

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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Pleasure
Anita Loos

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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
Incredulity
James Russell Lowell

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The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
God
Martin Luther

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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Poverty and The Poor
Madonna

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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
Problems
Joseph De Maistre

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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Books - Reading
Katherine Mansfield

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Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
Living Together
Christopher Marlowe

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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
W. Somerset Maugham

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What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Memory
Alfred Mercier

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Pleasure
Moliere

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