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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

John Selden

John Selden (1584–1654), British jurist, statesman. "Pleasure," Table Talk (1686).

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