Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure. (Jeremy Bentham)

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure.

Jeremy Bentham

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