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"A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians."
- James, William

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26346">A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3769/">James, William</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/metaphysics/">Metaphysics</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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