“Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure”
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“Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure”
“His own especial pleasure attracts each one”
“Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures”
“No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there is some anxiety mingled with the joy”
“Joy is not in things; it is in us”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best”
“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. ”
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body ”
“A witty saying proves nothing”
“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter”
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
“Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us”
“How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”
“Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain”
“One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder”
“A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. ”
“Pleasure disappoints, possibility never”
“A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market”
“The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen”