Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.
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