The christian wisdom requires us to rejoice in gifts given to others not only because they are given to others but because they are withheld from us.
(I found this in an old notebook and am sure I am not its author. Anyone know who is?)
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Quantum Est In Rebus Inane 
Tony Esolen? (cf. The Touchstone Blog, “The Fundamentalist Egalitarian”) — Quite a conversation going on over in that region of the internet.
That could be. I was reading him–and his translations of Dante–around the time I was keeping that notebook. I haven’t been on the Touchstone sight for a couple of years. I will go back and check it out.
Ah, right. There the line is, in the comments. Strange that, even seeing it, I have no memory of finding it there. Oh, well; I grow old. Thanks so much, CL!
False–We share in the giving. And when one brother receives we all receive. That is, at least, the ideal: One Body. I think one must be empowered by God though to really enjoy this.