“Repudiation of pleasur is a reason'd folly
of imperfection. Ther is no motiv can rebate
or decompose the intrinsic joy of activ life,
whereon all function whatsoever in man is based.”

—  Robert Seymour Bridges

Book IV, lines 459-462.
The Testament of Beauty (1929-1930)

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