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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting.
Books - Reading
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Anxiety
Ovid

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Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
Variety
Jean Paul

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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Pleasure
John Petit-Senn

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Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Indifference
Francis Picabia

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Pleasure
Plato

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Books - Reading
Noah Porter

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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Pleasure
Proverb

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Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.
Travel and Tourism
Proverb

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Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
Disease
John Ray

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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Variety
Jean Paul Richter

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The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
Wives
Earl Rochester

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Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.
Rewards
John D. Rockefeller

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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Pleasure
John D. Rockefeller

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Marriage
Helen Rowland

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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
Knowledge
John Ruskin

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Knowledge
Bertrand Russell

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Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
Work
George Sand

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Sacrifice
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Pain
John Selden

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Pleasure
Seneca

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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Pleasure
Seneca

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Sorrow
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Tragedies
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun