Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. ✨ Charles Caleb Col…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1824). Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, p.83
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