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For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.
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Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
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Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
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Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
Blow away the dreams that break your heart
Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) The Promised Land -
Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
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Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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He who slings mud generally loses ground.
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