#pleasure

Variety is the soul of pleasure. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#soul #variety

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

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I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure. ↗

— Max Cannon

#around #i #just #messing #pleasure

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#art #pleasure #truth #uniting

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. ↗

— William Jay

#friend #half #having #how #pleasure

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#beneath #bite #hook #know #pleasure

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#believe #doing #doing good #every #feels

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#i #knew #pleasure #read #weird

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#arrives #pain #pleasure #way

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#certain #deceive #dependable #experience #feign