Thomas Warton Quote

All human race, from China to Peru,
Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.


Universal Love of Pleasure, Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let observation with extensive view/ Survey mankind, from China to Peru", Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1.


All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.

All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.

All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.

All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.