“The Superclass tries to promote its values. Ordinary people complainof divine injustice, they envy power, and it pains them to seeothers having fun. They don’t understand that no one is having fun,that everyone is worried and insecure, and that what the jewels, cars,and fat wallets conceal is a huge inferiority complex.”

Paulo Coelho
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