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“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are
a hundred that will stand adversity.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
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