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The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
Life
Love
Pleasure
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
Camille Claudel
Character
Take Advantage
Devil
Deceived
Everyone
Pleasure
Mood
Take
Advantage
Longer
Greatest
Am
False
Greatest Pleasure
Any
Crafty
Whose
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Life
You
People
Say
Pleasure
People Say
Greatest
Doing
Greatest Pleasure
Cannot
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell
Power
Others
Pleasure
Consists
Ourselves
More
Preventing
Generally
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Themselves
Acquisition
Next
Enjoying
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
Ernest Hemingway
Death
Writing
Become
Once
Pleasure
Only
Major
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Stop
Vice
Your
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
Success
Work
World
Reward
Pleasure
Find
Calls
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Precedes
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb
Good
Accident
Action
Pleasure
Out
Stealth
Know
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Good Action
Found
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
Music
Me
Writing
Words
Pleasure
About
Make
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Inner
I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.
George Stevens
Work
Photography
People
Further
Pleasure
Would
Photographing
Some
Had
Pictures
Like
Liked
Qualified
Greatest
Got
Making
Greatest Pleasure
Westerns
Done
Anything
Them
Really
Working
Away
Ever
Hepburn
Thing
Started
Starting
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal
Myself
Money
Car
Typed
Pleasure
Possible
Finding
Able
Yachts
Greatest
Making
Making Money
Greatest Pleasure
Many
Started
Buying
Drafts
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
Jenny Shipley
Success
Me
People
Mother
Think
Pleasure
Having
Fact
Like
Greatest
Been
Greatest Pleasure
Often
In Fact
Ordinary
Lives
Career
For me, the greatest pleasure is when you make something, and everyone argues about it.
Nicolas Winding Refn
Me
You
Everyone
Pleasure
About
Something
Make
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
Peter B. Lewis
Innocent
Building
Enjoy
Philanthropist
Philanthropy
Completing
Pleasure
Frank
Gifts
Seeing
Results
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Jailed
Want
Whether
Flow
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.
Robert Hunter
Good
Character
Song
Writing
Walk
Be Nice
Nice
Too
Else
Consider
Pleasure
Though
Out
Record
Good Song
Good Story
Greatest
Hear
Greatest Pleasure
Get
Anyone
Anyone Else
Story
Gonna
Create
Really
Good Character
Away
Play
I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
Sabine Baring-Gould
Life
Kindness
My Life
Met
Back
Spent
Pleasure
Some
Hospitality
Look
Greatest
Years
Greatest Pleasure
Yorkshire
Where
Happiest
I search for different tonalities in my taps. But my greatest pleasure is hearing a note I haven't heard before, hearing a chord that sparks something new.
Savion Glover
Before
Pleasure
Something
Something New
New
Greatest
Heard
Hearing
Greatest Pleasure
Different
Note
Sparks
Chord
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