“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.” SometimesWould BePainPleasureGriefShareConversationSilentSatisfactionSympathyParticipationWoeDiminish Author:William Wycherley
“where I have seen good I shall speak of it with pleasure, and where I have seen the reverse, I shall try to be silent; for a book is meant to give pleasure, and pain that is inflicted in black and white lasts for ever.” GivingTryingBookPainLastsSpeakBlackWhitePleasureSilentBlack And WhiteReversePain And Pleasure Book:The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal Source: The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.” InterestPleasurePlanetsPaidSilentHeavyRememberedCompoundsCompound Interest Author:John Lubbock