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  • I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature†but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

    - Charles Lamb
      Essays of Elia,'A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People'.

  • The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

    -John Stuart Mill
      Utilitarianism, ch.4.

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