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... Pleasure that I find in Plato . Alas ! good Folk , they never felt what true Pleasure meant . And how came you , Madam , quoth I , to this deep Knowledge of Pleasure ? And what did chiefly allure you unto it , seeing not many Women ...
... Pleasure that I find in Plato . Alas ! good Folk , they never felt what true Pleasure meant . And how came you , Madam , quoth I , to this deep Knowledge of Pleasure ? And what did chiefly allure you unto it , seeing not many Women ...
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Arthur Quiller-Couch. 123 Pleasure 1584-1654 PLEASURE is nothing else but the intermission of pain , the enjoying of ... pleasure ; only thus , one man's pleasure lies one way , and another's another . Pleasures are all alike , simply ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. 123 Pleasure 1584-1654 PLEASURE is nothing else but the intermission of pain , the enjoying of ... pleasure ; only thus , one man's pleasure lies one way , and another's another . Pleasures are all alike , simply ...
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... pleasure home , talking and pleasing ourselves with the pleasure of this day's work . Mrs. Turner mightily pleased with my resolution , which , I tell her , is never to keep a country - house , but to keep a coach , and with my wife on ...
... pleasure home , talking and pleasing ourselves with the pleasure of this day's work . Mrs. Turner mightily pleased with my resolution , which , I tell her , is never to keep a country - house , but to keep a coach , and with my wife on ...
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