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Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. – Goethe

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What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. – Friedrich Holderlin

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. – Samuel Johnson

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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

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