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Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. – Philip Wylie

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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. – Philip Wylie

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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. – Michael Harrington

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

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