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Quote by Jane Austen
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroy

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. – Jane Austen

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. – Aristotle

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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. – William Burroughs

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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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Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed! – My wordfriend, the always conversationally frisky Tim Irwin, 2014

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