It was one of the tenets of her life — the strongest, perhaps, of all those doctrines on which she built her faith — that this world is a world of wo… - Anthony Trollope

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It was one of the tenets of her life — the strongest, perhaps, of all those doctrines on which she built her faith — that this world is a world of woe; that wailing and suffering, if not gnashing of teeth, is and should be the condition of mankind preparatory to eternal bliss.