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“Prosperity is too apt to prevent us from examining our conduct, but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.” So wrote the British author Samuel Johnson. This is because, as G.K. Chesterton wrote, “If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue, it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.” Prosperity clouds our judgment and makes it difficult for us to have a clear picture of who we are and what we are doing with our lives. As Johnson claimed, it is adversity that is the better teacher.
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