"JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree."
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"The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all."
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"That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting."
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"We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought."
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"There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping."
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"In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone."
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"No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it."
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"It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty."
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"The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other."
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"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived as those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book. Everything that seemed to fill them full for others we pushed aside, because it stood between us and the pleasures of the Gods."
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"When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting."
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"Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures."
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"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."
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"It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense."
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"Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory."
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"If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure."
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"Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it."
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"Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet."
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"What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them."
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"I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it."
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