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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
Works (1754) -
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
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Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.
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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
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That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
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That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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