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Most of it has avery familiar ring, but the examples are well chosen, and when he is not dishing out soppy sentiment ("A perplexing consequence of fixing our eyes on an ideal is that it may make us sad") or dispensing fog, Mr. de Botton sometimes lives up to his pretensions.
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