#pleasure

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. ↗

— John Dryden

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This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them. ↗

— William Bligh

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Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. ↗

— Emily Bronte

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The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. ↗

— Michael Faraday

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It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure. ↗

— Lord Byron

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