{"serial":"BRIEF-2026-05-31-01","doc":"brief-2026-05-31","position":1,"body_html":"<h1>What does this passage say you should defend with your life, and which of your daily acts contradicts that defence?</h1>\n<p class=\"muted\">Theme: <strong>core_values</strong> &middot; card 1/4 &middot; 2026-05-31</p>\n<blockquote>Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich in inward.</blockquote>\n<p class='muted'>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau, <em>Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience</em></p>\n<p class='muted'><em>Notes go here when you tap capture or note above.</em></p>","captures":[],"notes":"","comments":[]}