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"I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day." -
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E.B. White
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"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
"Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only."
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