"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."
-F. H. Bradley
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.“
-F. H. Bradley
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