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• One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, People, Realization

  James K. Galbraith, Kari Levitt, Mel Watkins, John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Unconventional wisdom: lectures from the John Kenneth Galbraith prize in economics”

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• Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

  Andy Rooney

  News Stories, People, Feelings

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.95, PublicAffairs

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• By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Morning, Book, Fall

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• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.

  Ann M. Martin

  Children, Reading, Thinking

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• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Next, Acquisition

  'Sceptical Essays' (1928) 'Recrudescence of Puritanism'

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• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  Karen Kain

  Movement, Talent, Pleasure

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• If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Libertarian, Moderation

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• I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life, and some starved impulse left him to lay bare his soul. I have in this way learned more about men in a night than I could if I had known them for 10 years. If you are interested in human nature, it is one of the greatest pleasures of travel.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Night, Men

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• Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Want, Leisure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books

  Brandon Sanderson

  Morning, Book, Reading

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• One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

  Edna Lewis

  Food, Learning, African American

  Edna Lewis (2013). “In Pursuit of Flavor”, p.7, Knopf

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• In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one mountain, by a lift may be convenient but it robs us of the greatest pleasure that skiing can give, that is to travel through the wide wintery country; to follow the lure of peaks which tempt on the horizon and to be alone for a few days or even hours in clear, mysterious surroundings.

  Hans Gmoser

  Country, Giving, Snow

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• We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

  John C. Maxwell

  Meaningful, Jobs, Done

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• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Heart, Pleasure

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Long, Hearing

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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• I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Helping Others, Shadow, Looks

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.273, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The ideal hole is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number, gives the fullest advantage for accurate play, stimulates players to improve their game, and never becomes monotonous.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Numbers, Pleasure, Holes

  "Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping".

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• It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Winning, Soul, Christ

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• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  Vernon Lee

  Reading, Pleasure, Pleasure Of Reading

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

  Joanna Lumley

  Blessed, Giving, Charity

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• I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

  Jean Plaidy

  Years, Cities, London

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• The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

  William Golding

  Jobs, Sex, People

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• The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.

  Genghis Khan

  Daughter, Horse, Wife

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• It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

  Raymond Radiguet

  Novelty, Habit, Pleasure

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