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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
-William Hazlitt
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There Are Only Three Pleasures In Life

William Hazlitt
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
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