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" For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments: it is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent, that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason... "
Loudon's Architectural Magazine: And Journal of Improvement in Architecture ... - Page 349
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Wilhelm Meister: Apprenticeship

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1912 - 380 pages
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Essays Literary and Historical

Thomas Davis - 1914 - 494 pages
...things by every method in his power. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments : it is only because they are not used to taste of what...insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason, he would add, ' one ought at least every day to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,...
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The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Volume 14: Wilhelm Meister's ...

J W Von Goethe - 1917 - 638 pages
...the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments: it is only because they are not used to taste of what...insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason," he would add, "one ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,...
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The Sackbut, Volume 5

1924 - 526 pages
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Mountain Life & Work, Volumes 10-12

1934 - 448 pages
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Wilhelm Meister: Apprenticeship

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1925 - 388 pages
...the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments: it is only because they are not used to taste of what...generality of people take delight in silly and insipid tilings, /provided they be new. vFor this reason," he would add, " one f ought every day at least to...
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Harper's Anthology: Prose

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 pages
...things by every method in his power. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments; it is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent, that so many people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason one...
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Harper's Anthology for College Courses in Composition and Literature: Of ...

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 pages
...things by every method in his power. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments; it is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent, that so many people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason one...
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Educational Review, Volume 74

1927 - 342 pages
...them, and they are going to bring this old world one step nearer heaven." The Cure for Gossip. — "It is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent that so many people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new. For this reason one...
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Wilhelm Meister: Apprenticeship

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1930 - 388 pages
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