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Has not Providence, I added, reflecting on the different conditions in life, arranged things very wisely? The great and the wealthy are, for the most part, fools: this is obvious to anyone who knows anything of the world. And is there not an admirable justice in this? If, as well as wealth, they also had wit, they would be too fortunate and the rest of mankind
too wretched.
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too wretched.
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desires. I at once devised a peaceful and solitary way of life for the future. I imagined a secluded house, with a little wood and a stream of clear water at the end of the garden, a library of choice books, a small number of friends possessed of virtue and good sense, a table which, though frugal and modest, was tastefully furnished...
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