The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), ch. 3
“Hate is by far the greatest pleasure; men love in haste, but detest in leisure.”
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
“Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!”
Source: Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur
Quoted in "Table Talk" http://books.google.com/books?id=LIxUAAAAcAAJ&q=%22greatest+pleasure+I+know+is+to+do+a+good+action+by+stealth+and+to+have+it+found+out+by+accident%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in The Athenaeum magazine (4 January 1834).
As quoted in in Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 (1922) by Carl Clinton Van Doren
Context: I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.
Letter to G W Rusden (8 June 1876), published in The Letters of Anthony Trollope (1983), p. 691
It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You
Song lyrics, Southern Voice (2009)
