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“These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.”

Perfect Comfort Pleasant Picnics

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

Source: Fantastic voyage II: destination brain

“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.”

Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays

“I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.”

“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.”

Pleasure Liberty Fire Comfort Pleasant Nobility Convenience Temperature Consuming Bourgeois

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung.”

Long Book Home Seems Reading Hours Comfort Universal Pleasant Companion Invincible Sustenance Book Love

Author:Anna Quindlen