Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733) Anglo-Dutch writer and physician
Dr. Johnson in conversation, April 15, 1778, reported in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1791) p. 948.
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“Pleasure of itself is not a vice.”
April 15, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
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1930s
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Labor est etiam ipse voluptas.
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No. 257
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
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