#plea

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing. ↗

— Debra Messing

#guilty pleasure #napping #nursing #pleasure #project

The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #pain #pleasure #funny

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. ↗

— John Milton

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Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

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Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. ↗

— Moliere

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