#pleasure

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy. ↗

— Richard Steele

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. ↗

— Stendhal

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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. ↗

— Stendhal

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. ↗

— Mark Strand

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I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. ↗

— William Styron

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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. ↗

— Tacitus

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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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