Quotes with pleasure-ground

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  • Katherine Mansfield The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Joseph Addison To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Johnson What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Voltaire Work is often the father of pleasure.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Barbara Windsor 'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Carter Burwell A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Walter Bagehot A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Rose Macaulay A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Francis Bacon A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • E. B. White A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Anne Spencer A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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  • Abba Eban A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Simone Weil A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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