You choose rigorously, straining for the heart of the end as do all rigorists who are also hedonists.
"The Kempton-Wace Letters"
Jack London Anna Strunsky
Pleasure is the right word; for pleasure of the painful sort that all hedonists will easily imagine was what he expected to get from it; though upon the face of it there seems no reason why a man should delight to see his fellow-men waiting in the winter street for the midnight dole of bread which must in some cases be their only meal from the last midnight to the next midnight.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
To begin with, he has invented a society called 'The hedonists,' which is supposed to get pleasure out of anything extraordinary, and he has filled up Thornton with the idea that he is the very man to be President if we can get him elected."
"Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate"
Charles Turley