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No possession is so valuable as self- possession. In every town in which I have ever lived the people who were most discontented and un- happy were people who in worldly goods were well-to-do and, in most cases, had hardly any serious burdens to carry. Consequently they had plenty of time to give themselves up unre- strainedly to worrying over their own precious selves. Such is the case with almost all pessi- mists. Take their great modern apostle, Schopenhauer, the man who maintained that this... world was "the worst possible world, " for if it had been any worse, it could not possibly OUR SELF-MADE WORLD 167 have held together and kept running. His big philosophic tomes, his private letters and his daily conversation were one continuous growl against life. Human society, he de- clared, is "an arena of agonized and tormented beings who subsist only by devouring one an- other — a hell surpassing Dante's in this: that each one must be the Devil and tormentor to some fellow sufferer. " "The greatest of misfortunes is birth.
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