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Charles Caleb Colton - Pain may be said to follow...

Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as its shadow but the misfortune is, that the substance belongs to the shadow, and the emptiness to its cause. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as its shadow but the misfortune is, that the substance belongs to the shadow, and the emptiness to its cause.

Charles Caleb Colton

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