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Letter "T" » The Pleasure
«Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.»
Author: G. Wilhelm Leibniz
| About:
Music
| Keywords:
counting, experiences, human mind, The Pleasure
«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Sex
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damnable, expense, momentary, position, ridiculous, The Pleasure
«People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.»
«Sex is unclean, not because of the pleasure, but because of the suffering it brings»
«I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Posterity
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explained, intentionally, kindly, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, Others The, posterity, so as to, The Pleasure
«Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
(Writer)
| About:
Discrimination
| Keywords:
astonishes, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, The Pleasure
«Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!»
«Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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animals, cruel, inflicting, inflicts, The Animals, The Pleasure
«Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
author, Book One, brushed, brushes, brushing, brush up, colored person, coloring book, colors, derives, deriving, describing, feels, landscape, paint, painting, preferred, reading, The Author, The Pleasure
«Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Melancholy
| Keywords:
pleasure, sad, The Pleasure
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