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pleasure Quotes and Quotations
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That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure. Jean Alesi | top
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. Bernard Baruch | top
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille | top
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Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. Giotto di Bondone | top
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A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. Marion Zimmer Bradley | top
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Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. Thomas Edward Brown | top
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure. Carl Clinton Van Doren | top
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One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. Joseph Epstein | top
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I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? Jim Garrison | top
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism. Barbara Kruger | top
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Macaulay | top
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Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. Joseph de Maistre | top
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. David McCullough | top
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I made a habit always to hear the Indians; and although they very often lie to me, I do not show them any displeasure for it, for I do not believe them and I do not decide anything until I have found out the truth. Antonio de Mendoza | top
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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Michel de Montaigne | top
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I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. Helen Wills Moody | top
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I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them. Lester B. Pearson | top
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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. Francis Picabia | top
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Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. Francis Quarles | top
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them. Barry Sanders | top
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. George Santayana | top
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. John Selden | top
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Mark Strand | top
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. Anthony Trollope | top
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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. David Foster Wallace | top
