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“Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long.”
“He glanced at her, his hair wild and his eyes red. 'May I give ye pleasure?'Still a gentleman. Emma smiled. But his voice sounded gruff and his appearance was that of an untamed barbarian. She grab...”
“What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.”
“I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.”
“She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.”
“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?”
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
“There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.”
“Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.”
“Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.”
“We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.”
“He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.”
“Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.”
“Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of.”
“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”
“I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
“It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.”
“The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?”
“It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.”
