"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."

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"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."

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"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

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"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."

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