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“The pleasing punishment that women bear.”
William Shakespeare
“I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman”
Dan Castellaneta
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to'.' Said the Cat. I don't much care where / Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.”
Lewis Carroll
“I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”
Epicurus
“Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.”
Mark Twain
“The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly”
Stendhal
“If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be lovable, if you would be helped, be helpful.”
William Arthur Ward
“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”
C. Wright Mills
“I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights”
Abraham Lincoln
