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The great source of both misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from overrating the difference between one permanent situation and another.
Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can should be pursued with such passionate ardour which drives 
us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our 
own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.