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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell

1928

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Recrudescence of Puritanism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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