"As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that."
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"It was a pleasure to burn."
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"There is a pleasure in not being pleased."
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"The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while."
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"Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it."
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"Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!"
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"Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always."
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"A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate."
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"It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do."
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"If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it."
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"A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure."
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"Even pleasure cloys without variety."
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"There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet."
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"I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food."
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"The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure."
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"I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret."
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"Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you..."
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"Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet."
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"It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me."
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"Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another."
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