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Anticipation makes the pleasure.
Anticipation makes the pleasure.
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
