Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. (Thomas Carlyle)

Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Thomas Carlyle

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