how to eliminate e quicker

I hate conceptual and overly dense passages like this. That said, for sufficient assumption questions, we can more or less anticipate the right answer off the bat, and for this one, that's very possible. The passage boils down to "if you would've regretted it, you shouldn't have wanted it, so you shouldn't have wanted some foregone pleasures." We need to make this valid, and adding "you'ld have regretted some foregone pleasures" makes the argument valid. Since we have an answer choice that is almost that word for word, we wouldn't have needed to eliminate e, since we could have just picked d and moved on. So, I guess I'm saying frontload the work on these question types, because that way you won't have to scrutinize each answer choice as carefully once you find the right one.

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