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"Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it"
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Joseph Butler
between May 18, 1692 and June 16, 1752. He/she was a famous
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