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“The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.”

Ifs Feelings Enjoy Stupid Duty Critics Satisfaction Accomplished Superiority Stupid Things

Author:Paul Gauguin

“I'm a shy guy... I don't enjoy being bothered but I never say no to a fan. I say yes to everybody... even though sometimes you have some days where you don't feel like it, but it's your duty as athlete to do it. Because the fans that pay it's going to make you live, so you have to do it. So I force myself to do it all the time.”

Feels Sometimes Guy Force Enjoy Pay Fans Duty Athlete Shy Mma Bothered Shy Guy

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

People Book Ideas Reading Force Enjoy Duty

Author:Nick Hornby

“The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.”

Men Pain Enjoy Pleasure Pay Consciousness Duty Honor Rewards

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.”

Men Feelings Political Enjoy Influence Duty Office Faithful Length Discharge

Book:Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life

Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life

“If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”

“Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running”

Ifs Feels Running Lying Enjoy Duty Down And Lying Down

Author:Steve Aylett

“No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.”

Should Children Made Ideas Heaven Enjoy Community Space Duty Honor Clothes Empty Obligation Empty Space Papa Repayment

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages; and it is doubtless our paramount duty, in every state of society, to alleviate the pressure of the purely evil part of this distribution, as much as possible, and, by all the means we can devise, secure the lower links in the chain of society from dragging in dishonor and wretchedness.”