“ Every trivial cause of pleasure is apt to affect the man of too sanguine a complexion: his appetite is too keen to suffer his taste to be delicate ”
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation
Author | Edmund Burke |
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Source | A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful |
Topic | suffering pleasure |
Date | 1757 |
Language | English |
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