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“I have already enjoyed too much: give me something to desire.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“There is no enjoyment like reading!” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“By means of music the very passions enjoy themselves.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“And to me also, who appreciate life, the butterflies, and soap-bubbles, and whatever is like them amongst us, seem most to enjoy happiness.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Assuredly nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“But what a man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Then, in happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, O my friend, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful...” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it—and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.” Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.” James Joyce, Dubliners
“Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final repose.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“revenge is a feast for the gods! And if they have reserved it, as priests tell us, to themselves, it is because they hold it an enjoyment too precious for the possession of mere mortals.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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