"A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold."
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"We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure."
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"The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master."
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"One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be."
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"Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?"
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"The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory."
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"That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest."
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"I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features."
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"Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting wines"
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"We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing."
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"Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe."
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"She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation"
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"Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal."
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"I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation."
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"To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear."
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"So through identification you have pleasure and pain."
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"Joy is something entirely different from pleasure."
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"If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world."
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"The best pleasures of this world are not quite true."
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"The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us."
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