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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Lord Chesterfield
Reading, Cows, Pleasure

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Lord Chesterfield
Pleasure
Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.45, Wildside Press LLC

Sexual intercourse is a grossly overrated pastime; the position is undignified, the pleasure momentary and the consequences damnable.

Lord Chesterfield
Funny, Pleasure, Pastime

Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.

Lord Chesterfield
Taste, Pleasure, Enjoy
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.176

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Lord Chesterfield
Giving, Doe, Pleasure
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.351

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