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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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I want to know the meaning of this sentence!
Recently I've been translating a book and encountered such a sentence:
"that's a pleasure all the greater for being deferred", the character quotes this from somewhere and I'm not sure what it means, can anybody tell me the meaning of this sentence and who said it?
"that's a pleasure all the greater for being deferred", the character quotes this from somewhere and I'm not sure what it means, can anybody tell me the meaning of this sentence and who said it?
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The fact that the pleasure has been put off makes it greater. The speaker derives more pleasure from something because he/she has had to wait for it. I cannot possibly know who said that!
- The fact that the pleasure has been put off makes it greater.
- The speaker derives more pleasure from something because he/she has had to wait for it.
- I cannot possibly know who said that!
- CB
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The fact that the pleasure has been put off makes it greater. The speaker derives more pleasure from something because he/she has had to wait for it.
I cannot possibly know who said that!
I cannot possibly know who said that!
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Anonymousthat's a pleasure all the greater for being deferredI have my doubts that this can be attributed to any one particular source. So many variants of it can be found that it is probably better considered a part of folk philosophy.
CJ
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