The sweet pleasure of your own joy and success is a cultivation of both the heart and mind. ― Bryant McGill

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It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

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It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. ― Kahlil Gibran

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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. ― Sophocles, Antigone

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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

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I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that. ― John Green

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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

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I’ve always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments. — John Barrowman

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