Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number…

Albert Schweitzer
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Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (1956). An anthology
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