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      "text": "As soon as our two travelers had taken leave of His Excellency, Candide said to Martin, \"Well, I hope you will own that this man is the happiest of all mortals, for he is above everything he possesses.\"\"But do not you see,\" answered Martin, \"that he likewise dislikes everything he possesses? It was an observation of Plato, long since, that those are not the best stomachs that reject, without distinction, all sorts of food.\"\"True,\" said Candide, \"but still there must certainly be a pleasure in criticising everything, and in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.\"\"That is,\" replied Martin, \"there is a pleasure in having no pleasure.\"",
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