#pleasures

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

— Pierre Corneille

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Griffin, please,” she whispered. “Do you want me?” he asked. “Yes!” She tossed her head restlessly. She’d explode if he didn’t give her release soon. “Do you need me?” He kissed her nipple too gently. “Please, please, please.” “Do you love me?” And somehow, despite her extremis, she saw the gaping hole of the trap. She peered up at him blindly in the dark. She couldn’t see his face, his expression. “Griffin,” she sighed hopelessly. “You can’t say it, can you?” he whispered. “Can’t admit it either. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ↗

— Democritus

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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

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Happy indeed is the scientist who not only has the pleasures which I have enumerated, but who also wins the recognition of fellow scientists and of the mankind which ultimately benefits from his endeavors. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

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