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“Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.”

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Book:The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

Source: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.”

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Book:Success and Its Conditions

Source: Success and Its Conditions

“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

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Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.”

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Author:Richard Sharp

“Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.”

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Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor