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QUOTATION:Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
ATTRIBUTION:Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian philosopher, historian. The New Science, bk. 1, para. 241 (1744, trans. 1984).
 
 
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