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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 ecstasies cheap and trivial.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
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Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
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Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
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