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

— Benjamin Franklin

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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. ↗

— Sophocles

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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always. ↗

— Sophocles

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There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

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When trouble ends even troubles please. ↗

— Sophocles

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. ↗

— Anne Spencer

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ↗

— Stendhal

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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ↗

— Stendhal

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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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