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Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse by Roger Kimball
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“What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleasures of a strong mind. If you wish for luxury, you must not nourish the inquisitive instinct.”
― Roger Kimball, Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse

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