"Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will."

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Muriel Barbery

#Delight Quotes #Movement Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.”

Source : Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.225
“Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.”
“All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.”
“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
“Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business”
“I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.”
“A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.”
“I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley”, p.152

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