"There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet."

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Ovid

#Sweet Quotes #Bitter Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.”
“If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse”
“Nothing ever gets settled in this town (Washington). It's not like running a company or even a university. It's a seething debating society, in which the debate never stops; in which people never give up, including me, and that's the atmosphere in which you administer.”
“My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.”
“The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.”
“Expectation is the springboard of achievement.”
“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”
“People in misery is what most important in art.”

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