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The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain, pt. 3, ch. 2 (1948).
-- Thomas Merton, (Jan 31 1915-1968), French monk, poet; He was a prolific Roman Catholic writer on spiritual and social themes, one of the most important American Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century.

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