#pleas

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#benefits #gratitude #impatient #inferiority #minds

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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#another #difficulties #forming #gratified #higher

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book. ↗

— Chuck Jones

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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. ↗

— Mother Jones

#am #i #i am #pen #please

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night. ↗

— Willie Sutton

#bank #experience #night #pleasant #pleasant experience

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me. ↗

— Gary Kemp

#daily #hardly #me #pleased #rock

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#dear #fitzgerald #god #john #kennedy

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#being #dynamic #efficiently #foot #get

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#him #like #pleased #prospering #you

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#haste #hurry #men #most #past