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And since learning and admiring are pleasant, all
things connected with them must also be pleasant; for instance, a work of
imitation, such as painting, sculpture, poetry, and all that is well imitated,
even if the object of imitation is not pleasant; for it is not this that causes
pleasure or the reverse, but the inference that the imitation and the object
imitated are identical, so that the result is that we learn something.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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