It was one of the tenets of her life - the strongest, perhaps, of all those doctrines on which she built her faith - that this world is a world of woe; that wailing and suffering, if not gnashing of teeth, is and should be the condition of mankind preparatory to eternal bliss. (Anthony Trollope)

It was one of the tenets of her life - the strongest, perhaps, of all those doctrines on which she built her faith - that this world is a world of woe; that wailing and suffering, if not gnashing of teeth, is and should be the condition of mankind preparatory to eternal bliss.

Anthony Trollope

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