#pleasures

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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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