"To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure."

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Source : "Minna von Barnhelm". Play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Act IV, scene VI, 1763.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#Looks Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.”
“Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren't enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call "the third place" ... a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn't know they had.”
“I think it's important to do great work.”
“Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.”
“And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?”
“I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma”
“The main thing in a cup tie is to get through.”
“The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.”

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