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“Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.”

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Author:Madame de Stael

“When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough; the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.”

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Author:Edith Hamilton

“Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.”

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Book:The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.”

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Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.”

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Author:Francois Fenelon

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)

“The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.”

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Author:Edith Hamilton

“They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.”

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Author:Thomas More

“The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.”

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Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry