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“An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young”
Oscar Wilde
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
C.S. Lewis
“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor”
Mark Twain
“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
“Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex”
“The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.”
“With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase”
Abraham Lincoln
“There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive”
Benjamin Franklin