Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin

Quotes November 23, 2008

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Pleasure
Quotations by Benjamin Franklin

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