“The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
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“The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.”
As quoted in Art Smart (2007) by Alan Bryce
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“All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.”
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) English literary historian, critic, poet
Universal Love of Pleasure, Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let observation with extensive view/ Survey mankind, from China to Peru", Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1.
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Marge Piercy (1936) American novelist and poet
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist
As quoted in A Random Walk in Science (1973) by Robert L. Weber, p. 76
“It can never be wrong to give pleasure.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) British politician
"Gossip in a Library"
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