Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. ✨ Alain De Botton …

Alain de Botton
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. ✨ Alain De Botton (2008). Status Anxiety, p.85, Vintage
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It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to m … ▶
Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess. ✨ Alain De Botton (2008). Status Anxiety, p.43, Vintage

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