Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes About Pleasure
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Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.
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Business first, then pleasure.
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
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A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
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The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Born: May 25, 1803
- Died: January 18, 1873
- Occupation: Novelist