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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Honore de Balzac

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

Saint Augustine

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

David Attenborough

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.

Marvin J. Ashton