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But a pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold ... I looked upon it then as a part of the pattern I was attempting to draw to experience all the pleasures of sense .
But a pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold ... I looked upon it then as a part of the pattern I was attempting to draw to experience all the pleasures of sense .
Page 169
It appeals to the imagination as well as to the in- telligence ; and to the amateur , much more , I suppose , than to the professional it affords matter for that reverie which is the most delicious pleasure with which man can beguile ...
It appeals to the imagination as well as to the in- telligence ; and to the amateur , much more , I suppose , than to the professional it affords matter for that reverie which is the most delicious pleasure with which man can beguile ...
Page 213
Of course it is delightful and pleasure in itself is good , but what is there in it that makes it superior to any other pleasure , so supe- rior that to speak of it as pleasure at all means to de- preciate it ?
Of course it is delightful and pleasure in itself is good , but what is there in it that makes it superior to any other pleasure , so supe- rior that to speak of it as pleasure at all means to de- preciate it ?
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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