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The Pleasures of Life

This book delves into the concept of happiness and the various sources of pleasure that can be experienced in daily existence. more

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John Lubbock
John Lubbock

John Lubbock was a prominent British banker born on April 30, 1834, and passed away on May 28, 1913. He made significant contributions to the banking industry and played a crucial role in the development of the British financial system during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more

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“Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?”

“He had made his decision. Later in life Ann would learn that when certain men made decisions no matter how much it might torture them afterwards they would stick with their decision. Men, she learned, would rather suffer than change their minds or their habits. They could develop elaborate systems for containing pain, sometimes so successful they would remain completely unaware of the vastness of the pain they possessed.”