The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it. (Oliver Goldsmith)

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.

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