"Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them."
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"We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of."
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"If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise."
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"Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it."
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"Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them."
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"Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!"
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"The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure."
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