"To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at but after all , what do they get for it Softer cushions, better meat , more outward thoughtfuls , maybe decorations ... that is all. And to think that there are found serious men who consume their whole existence in the pursuit and the expectation of these trivialities."
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