"Perhaps delight is useful, but my first thought is never the use of it--I seek pleasure in itself, not because it can get me anything that I prize more greatly." Laertes sets down a couple of bottles of oil on the shelf, shuffling them behind the partially-used bottle. "Canst thou not conduct another survey?" he asks, and immediately remembers (not without a pang of guilt) that he forgot to finish the last one.
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