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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
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- William James
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- Approximate author period: c. 1876 AD · industrial
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