On over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another

The great source of... misery... of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another... Some... situations may... deserve to be preferred...: but none... can deserve to be pursued with that... ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice. A. SMITH

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