#pleasures

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ↗

— William Wycherley

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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. ↗

— William Wycherley

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I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can. ↗

— John Green

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

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Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. ↗

— John Dryden

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This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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