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1  With pleasure, Miss Prism, with pleasure.
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2  My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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3  I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.
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4  She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude.
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5  I am afraid, Aunt Augusta, I shall have to give up the pleasure of dining with you to-night after all.
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6  And surely there must be much good in one who is kind to an invalid, and leaves the pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain.
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7  What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure.
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