| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6698 |
| QUOTATION: | The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), British philosopher, jurist, political theorist. The Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch. 2 (1789). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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