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| Go, go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. |
| by William Wycherley |
| Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
| by Jean La Fontaine |
| If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. |
| by Cicero |
| When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. |
| by Epictetus |
| To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. |
| by Thomas Gray |
| Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. |
| by William E. Henley |
| A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give. |
| by Tyron Edwards |
| Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. |
| by Thomas Jefferson |
| Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. |
| by Samuel Johnson |
| The thrush in my back yard sings down his nose in liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this for his own pleasure. It is a meditative, questioning kind of music, and I cannot believe that he issimply saying "thrush here." |
| by Lewis Thomas |
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