“What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again: hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immoveable foundation they must ever stand.”

Source: The House of Hades

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Source: Part II : Practical Pictorial Photography, Fidelity to nature and justifiable untruth, p.3

Fuckin' Perfect, written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback
Song lyrics, Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (2010)

To angry Democrats who were threatening him during a speech (5 April 1860), as quoted in His Brother&#x27;s Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&amp;ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&amp;pg=PA191 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 191 <br class="br">1860s

Única regla de agradar: coger el apetito picado con el hambre con que quedó.
Maxim 299 (p. 168)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)

Stanza 3.
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
Context: And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years. And so I dare to hope,
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills;

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Duke of Milan (1623), Act I, scene iii.