A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.
What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.
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