“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.”
Source: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 19
“Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.—Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims
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