#plea

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#congratulations #effect #individuals #liberty #may

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. ↗

— Frances Burney

#imperial #insensibility #kinds #most #moves

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more. ↗

— George Byron

#i #i love #intrudes #less #lonely

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

#convert #could #five #four #give

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. ↗

— Lord Byron

#christianity #damned #fancying #great #great mind

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#having #like #love #making #novel

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. ↗

— William Feather

#business #interfering #makes #other #pleasure

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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