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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Jane Austen
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
William Shakespeare
“To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial”
Mark Twain
“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)”
Benjamin Franklin
“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.”
“Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.”
Zig Ziglar
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you can do is scratch it”
Sir Thomas Beecham
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
Soren Kierkegaard
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