"We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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"For pleasure has no relish unless we share it."
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"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
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"There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it."
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"The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all."
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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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"We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls."
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"I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing"
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"I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors."
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"Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned."
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"As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced."
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"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!"
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"Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility."
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"Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure."
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"Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us."
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"Gardening is the purest of human pleasures."
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"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
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"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found."
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