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Our minds are so constituted that a change of objects brings nearly as much relief as actual repose.

— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)

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Those views of life which deify pleasure are less likely to yield it.

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