• The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. pleasure
2. material
3. quantity
4. rather
5. whole
6. looks

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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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