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“For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity…” quote by Samuel Butler
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“For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.”

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