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If pleasure was...

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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Source: The Idler, no. 89, in Universal Chronicle (London, 29 Dec 1759; repr. in Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, ed. by W. J. Bate, John M. Bullitt and L. F. Powell, 1963).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.


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