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The mere brute pleasure of reading, the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
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The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
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