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| | British Medical Journal: Happy hedonists |
 | | The only difference was that people could pretend they were behaving otherwise, could protest that they were motivated not by vulgar, selfish, hedonistic drives but by supposedly higher, more altruistic ideals. |
 | | In antiquity, Epicurus and his followers, while not "epicureans" in the crass "eat, drink, and be merry" sense, had urged a hedonism that prized if not the indulgence of appetites, at least the avoidance of pain. |
 | | "New hedonist" was not old rake "writ large," but the man or woman of sensibility who could pursue satisfaction through sociable behaviour and whose good nature would give as well as take pleasure. |
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