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... happiness of sympathetic human intercourse seems to me incomparably greater than any other pleasure . I may be supposed to have passed the age of enthusiastic illusions , yet I would at any time rather pass a week with a real friend in ...
... happiness of sympathetic human intercourse seems to me incomparably greater than any other pleasure . I may be supposed to have passed the age of enthusiastic illusions , yet I would at any time rather pass a week with a real friend in ...
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... happiness of genuine human intercourse , but I prefer solitude to the false imitation of it . It is in this as in other pleasures , the better we appreciate the real thing , the less we are disposed to accept the spurious copy as a ...
... happiness of genuine human intercourse , but I prefer solitude to the false imitation of it . It is in this as in other pleasures , the better we appreciate the real thing , the less we are disposed to accept the spurious copy as a ...
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... happiest results . The late Duke of Albany may be mentioned as an example . No doubt his own natural refinement would have prevented him from associating with vulgar people , but he readily associated with refined and cultivated people ...
... happiest results . The late Duke of Albany may be mentioned as an example . No doubt his own natural refinement would have prevented him from associating with vulgar people , but he readily associated with refined and cultivated people ...
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... happiness for one who has the gift of throwing himself heartily into his work . When night comes he will be a little weary , and more disposed for tranquil sleep than to " danser jusqu'au jour chez l'ambassadeur de France . " This is ...
... happiness for one who has the gift of throwing himself heartily into his work . When night comes he will be a little weary , and more disposed for tranquil sleep than to " danser jusqu'au jour chez l'ambassadeur de France . " This is ...
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... happiness except in those rare cases where it can be followed by marriage ; and even then the peril is not ended , for marriage gives no certainty of the duration of love , but constitutes of itself a new danger , as the natures most ...
... happiness except in those rare cases where it can be followed by marriage ; and even then the peril is not ended , for marriage gives no certainty of the duration of love , but constitutes of itself a new danger , as the natures most ...
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