“Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it', while really it is finding its place in him.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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“That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this: men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.”

― William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

“Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“At such moments I don't think about all the misery, but about the beauty that still remains.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are all embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“I have heard men talk of the blessings of freedom . . . but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled through his shoes, and the stars through his soul.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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