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... pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please for ever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the coldness . White is no whiter if it lasts ...
... pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please for ever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the coldness . White is no whiter if it lasts ...
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... pleasure . I crave my reader's indulgence . ) A student of character , I got an immense amount of pleasure out of the self- revelation which these various writers offered to my survey . I saw the man behind his philosophy and I was ...
... pleasure . I crave my reader's indulgence . ) A student of character , I got an immense amount of pleasure out of the self- revelation which these various writers offered to my survey . I saw the man behind his philosophy and I was ...
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William Somerset Maugham. pleasure , so superior that to speak of it as pleasure at all seems to depreciate it ? Was Jeremy Bentham so foolish after all when he said that one sort of happiness was as good as another , and if the amount ...
William Somerset Maugham. pleasure , so superior that to speak of it as pleasure at all seems to depreciate it ? Was Jeremy Bentham so foolish after all when he said that one sort of happiness was as good as another , and if the amount ...
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