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Updated: June 23, 2025
Yes, what then? Have I never seen women with that frank look who have committed murder for no reason, almost for pleasure's sake?" He started with terror at the memory of Dolores Kesselbach. What was it that made him connect these two women at every moment in his mind? He had loved one of them, that monster Dolores, and had strangled her with his own hands.
Sometimes I drink a wine glass or two in case of fatigue or illness. But to drink wine for pleasure's sake is incomprehensible to me. There are other pleasures more worthy of a man of culture." "You mean ladies, I suppose?" asked the old man with a wink. Smolin's cheeks and neck became red with the colour which leaped to his face.
The Moor went forth to victory, He was not pleasure's slave; His gallant heart was ever prompt To keep the pledge he gave. Azarco on his balcony With humble Cegri stood. He talked, and Cegri listened In a sad and listless mood; For of his own exploits he read, Writ in an open scroll, But envious Cegri heard the tale With rage and bitter dole.
The sunlight streamed in on her between the half-drawn curtains. The queerest impulse to put out a hand and stroke that full white throat shot through the maid's mind. "These flying machines are stupid," murmured Barbara; "the pleasure's in one's body -wings!" "I can see Lady Casterley in the garden." Barbara sprang out of bed.
"Guess I kin stand a few knocks, let alone scratches, when I calculate to have 'em. But I don' know! my notion of pleasure's sun'thin' soft and easy like; ain't your'n? I expect to take scratches bless you! but I don't call 'em fun. That's all I object to." "Then how come you here, Joe?" "Wall, " said Joe slowly, "I've got an old mother hum." "And she wanted some berries?" "She wanted a lot.
'Go, deceiver, go, some day, Sir, p'r'aps you'll waken, from pleasure's dream to know, the grief of orphans forsaken. Will you go, Sir? The dwarf taking no heed of this adjuration, Mr Swiveller advanced with the view of inflicting upon him condign chastisement.
A man takes to "piety" from a thousand different reasons from imitation or from eccentricity, from bravado or from reverence, from shame of the past or from terror of the future, from weakness and from pride, for pleasure's sake or for punishment's sake, in order to be able to judge, or in order to escape being judged, and for a thousand other reasons; but he only becomes truly religious for religion's sake.
It is all picturesque enough; but the fact is, we are aweary. We yawn; we are out of the vein; we have made the wedding, as the song says, and now, for pleasure's sake, let's make an end on't.
Of course I do, even most persistent and continuous hearers; whom I do not call pupils, but mere passing auditors of philosophers. Some come to hear, not to learn, just as we are brought into a theatre for pleasure's sake, to delight our ears with language, or with the voice, or with plays.
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