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Samuel T. Coleridge:Real pain can alone cure us

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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enought to feel misery.
by Samuel T. Coleridge


Charles C. Colton:To know the pains of power, we

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
by Charles C. Colton


David Hume:Avarice, the spur of industry, is so

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Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation.
by David Hume


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