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William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. – Francis Bacon
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. – Kahlil Gibran
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. – Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. – Mahatma Gandhi
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more. – George Gordon Byron
There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare. – Horace Rumpole
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. – Gandhi
Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. – Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery. – Maxim Gorky
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness. – Saint Augustine
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. – Voltaire
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. – Elias Canetti
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. – Marquis de Sade
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. – Bette Davis
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. – George Sheehan
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way. – A. Lawrence Lowell
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon. – Chinese Proverb
...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. – George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? – Oscar Wilde
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Gagehot
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. – C. S. Lewis

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