The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (English Library)

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""Pride," said Imlac, "is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages, and envy feels not its own happiness but when it may be compared with the misery of others." Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. "Amidst wrongs and frauds, competitions and anxieties, you will wish a thousand times for these seats of quiet, and willingly quit hope to be free from fear." We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to b"