#plea

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

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I really don't have a guilty pleasure. ↗

— Ann Marie Buerkle

#guilty pleasure #i #pleasure #really

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#doubt #never #out #pain #pleasure

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. ↗

— Aaron Burr

#life #make #my life #pleasure #rule

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling. ↗

— Frances Burney

#behaviour #cannot #characters #history #i

Increased funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program is a priority for the Bush Administration, and I am pleased that many families in North Carolina will benefit from this increase. ↗

— Richard Burr

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You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice. ↗

— Richard Burton

#justice #may #me #only #please

To make pleasures pleasant shortens them. ↗

— Charles Buxton

#pleasant #pleasures #shortens #them

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#company #how #however #matter #might

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. ↗

— Simon Callow

#becoming #characters #find #great #great writer