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253 quotesNo man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Pain
Samuel Johnson
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
Pain
Samuel Johnson
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
Pride
Samuel Johnson
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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
Theater
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Revenge
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Arts and Artists
Pauline Kael
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Pleasure
Soren Kierkegaard
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Please, we can get along here.
Peace
Rodney King
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Advice
Knegge
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Critics and Criticism
Jean De La Bruyere
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Deception
Jean De La Fontaine
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Faults
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Friends and Friendship
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
Action
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Pleasure
C. S. Lewis
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
Joy
C. S. Lewis
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Humor
Abraham Lincoln
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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
Pleasure
Mary Little
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Pleasure
Anita Loos
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
Incredulity
James Russell Lowell
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Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.
Preachers and Preaching
Sir Arnold Lunn
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun