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"I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"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
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"He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat." »Mark Twain
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"My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua
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"Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." »Dale Carnegie
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"If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat." »Sri da Avabhas
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"pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation." »Coleridge
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose." »Charles Baudelaire
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"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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"None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life." »James Goldsmith
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"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." »Albert Einstein
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"Envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?" »Feltham
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"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure." »Hermann Hesse
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"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure." »Michel de Montaigne
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"I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do." »Norman R. Augustine
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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." »Mary Wilson Little
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"Even pleasure itself is a toil." »Manilius
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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." »Mary Wilson Little
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"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." »Alfred Mercier
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"I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"The pleasure of love is in loving." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure." »Chinese
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"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Variety is the soul of pleasure." »Aphra Behn
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