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When Thoreau says <em>superfluous wealth</em> he refers to money that is not needed or there is more of it than enough and that with all that money can be bought just things that we do not need. Those things make us blind for what should be really important in life. As he goes on in the second sentence - we can have money, but we can not buy what our soul needs. Life can be experienced far more fully when living simply.
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I don't know for sure if this is the correct passage-
It ensures readers understand its significance in the passage. It creates a matter-of-fact tone as Machiavelli demonstrates the positive effects of a ruler's cruelty.
An olive branch should be one of your choices.
<span>The correct answer is King Henry VIII.
King Henry VIII broke with the Catholic Church because he wanted to divorce his first wife when she did not give him a son. He had fallen in love with another woman and wanted to marry her. The Pope would not grant him a divorce from his first wife, however. Henry then started his own church, the Church of England, and gave himself a divorce.</span>
