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Quote by Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. – Jane Austen

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. – Jane Austen

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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. – Jane Austen

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. – Joseph Addison

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Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. – William Henley

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. – Pierre Bonnard

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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. – Roland Barthes

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