The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
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