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It affects the character of our people." Prosperity also troubled him.
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Here, Alexander reflects on the moral and social implications of prosperity, suggesting it can be troubling for society's character.
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If Joel Weed lived as a beggar, Thurlow thought as a king.
His lightest word, sent thrilling to the rim of a vast audience, swayed it with the magic of control.
As he lived, so he died, a strange, lonely, unhappy man, out of tune with the beautiful world in which he was permitted to exist upward of four score years.
This is the spirit in which I have determined for myself to come up to this great question, and to pass through it.
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