Quotes 261 till 280 of 334.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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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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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act, is the great mind's great bribe.
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
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The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more.
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There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
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There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
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