"The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis."
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"Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation."
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"The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it."
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"Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation."
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"It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens."
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"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."
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"One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation."
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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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"The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor."
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"If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost."
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"Pleasure is none, if not diversified."
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"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends."
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"The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it."
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"We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way."
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"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."
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"But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission."
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"No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends."
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"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
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"Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand."
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"It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen."
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