“He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”
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Source: The Complete Short Stories
“The objection that consequentialism demands too much is accepted uncritically by almost all of us.”
‘Does Consequentialism Demand Too Much?’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 13, no. 3 (1984), p. 239
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