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• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

  Russell Baker

  America, Humanity, Events

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  Honore de Balzac

  Jewels, Literature, Pearls

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• I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Money, Tired

  Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Fatigued"

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• In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pleasures Of Life, Satiety, Greatest Pleasures

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 25), 55 BC.

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• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Thinking, Buying In

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Writing, Giving, Wake Up

  Asbury Park NJ Press, On audiences, August 13, 1974.

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• I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Peace, Laughter

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

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• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Children, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

  Alice Miller

  Friendship, Real Friends, Gossip

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• I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  John Mortimer

  Years, Worry, Three

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Success, Business

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Happiness, Thinking

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.20, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

  George Sand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sorrow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “A defense of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.43

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• Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

  Stendhal

  Spoiled, Describing

  Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.25, Penguin

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• The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

  Gore Vidal

  Finding The One, Car, Literature

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• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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• Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Inspirational, Over You, Feelings

  Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee

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• Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

  C. S. Lewis

  Often Is, Joy

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pleasure is the bait of sin

  Plato

  Bait, Sin

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• Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

  Minette Walters

  Fall, Rivers, White

  Minette Walters (2010). “The Ice House”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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