Quotes of Note on Nostr: "Has there ever, I wonder, been a period of history when so many peopled worked hard, ...
"Has there ever, I wonder, been a period of history when so many peopled worked hard, at such dull tasks, in order to maintain a quality of life which is better than anything the majority of mankind could have enjoyed in the past, but which is bought at the cost of unremitting work, economic complexities, lifelong burdens of debt, and an hysterical craving for more and costlier physical objects of a kind that can never requite the toil and servitude it takes to acquire them."
~ Robertson Davies
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