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Page 27
... pleasure and brings the greatest rewards , that pleasure and those rewards are still its justification . A There would be very little altruism in the world if it were not a source of pleasure . In some way or other everyone ex- pects a ...
... pleasure and brings the greatest rewards , that pleasure and those rewards are still its justification . A There would be very little altruism in the world if it were not a source of pleasure . In some way or other everyone ex- pects a ...
Page 28
... pleasure there is in self - sacrifice that people are willing to sacri- fice themselves for the most ignoble objects . # It is a great pleasure to confer favours upon another ; and it is a pleasure which is increased by the praise of ...
... pleasure there is in self - sacrifice that people are willing to sacri- fice themselves for the most ignoble objects . # It is a great pleasure to confer favours upon another ; and it is a pleasure which is increased by the praise of ...
Page 73
... pleasure . # Desire is pleasurable in its early stages , but , becoming in- tense , is painful . Then the result of ... pleasure but a pain , and then men will kill the woman they love so as to rid themselves of the desire . Hunger is a ...
... pleasure . # Desire is pleasurable in its early stages , but , becoming in- tense , is painful . Then the result of ... pleasure but a pain , and then men will kill the woman they love so as to rid themselves of the desire . Hunger is a ...
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