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“All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Universal Love of Pleasure.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- f8b728989064a3956d4b83583e29ed40912ed95df72504c17f4c482cd00310bf
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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